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Death's a sight better than a soft head an' a lifetime o' dirt an' drivelling an' babbling, like the brainless beasts they feed an' fatten in asylums. That's worse cruelty than any I be gwaine to suffer at human hands to be mewed in wan of them gashly mad-holes wi' the rack an' ruins o' empty flesh grinning an' gibbering 'pon me from all the corners o' the airth.
Never, since the day of his birth, had Davy Butts run at such a pace, in such light clothing, and in such severe frost! A long line of low hummocks hid him from the brig. The moment he passed these he came in sight of her and began to yell. "Wot on airth is yon?" exclaimed Joe Davis, who chanced to be looking over the gangway when this remarkable object appeared.
But Leander wuzn't to be satisfied with the common things uv airth; he didn't seem to take no pleasure in his grandchildren like most men do; his mind wuz allers sot on somethin' else, for hours 'nd hours, yes, all day long, he'd set out on the front stoop lookin' wistfully up the road for that book-agent to come along with a cyclopeedy.
She longed to cling to his arm; but he had drawn it resolutely away. "Half past ten," said Jim Airth. "Miss Murgatroyd has donned her night-cap. Miss Eliza has sighed: 'Good-night, summer, good-night, good-night, at her open lattice; and Susie, folding her plump hands, has said: 'Now I lay me." Myra laughed. "And they will all be listening for you to dump out your big boots," she said.
"Iss fay, so 'tis, an' I be Joe I talkin' to 'e; an' she'm shadin' her eyes theer to see my vessel a-sailin' away to furrin paarts! 'Tis a story that's true, an' the God-blasted limb what drawed this knawed I was gone to the ends o' the airth outward bound." A man from the turnstile came up here and inquired what was the matter.
"I say, Timotheus, what on airth be ye a dreaming of this bright mornin' 'stead er gittin' ready fer school?" A moment longer the boy stood staring at the sky, then as if slowly, and with an effort coming down to earth again, he looked down upon the woman who had interrupted him as he said,
Just as I drove through the gate, I saw the eldest gall a makin for the house for dear life she had a short petticoat on that looked like a kilt, and her bare legs put me in mind of the long shanks of a bittern down in a rush swamp, a drivin away like mad full chizel arter a frog. I could not think what on airth was the matter.
"Yes," said Myra. "But tell me, Jim; if if you noticed so much that first day; if you were interested; if you wanted to set me copies yes, I know I write a shocking hand; why would you never look at me? Why were you so stiff and unfriendly? Why were you not as nice to me as you were to Susie, for instance?" Jim Airth sat long in silence, staring out into the darkness.
I think we may expect to reach the Moorhead Inn by 4 A.M. Let us hope Miss Murgatroyd will not be looking out of her window, as we stroll up the path." "What are they all thinking now?" questioned Lady Ingleby. "I don't know, and I don't care," said Jim Airth, gaily. "You're alive, and I'm alive; and we've done a record climb! Nothing else matters." "No, but seriously, Jim?"
A woman may drag her own pride in the dust, and survive the process; but when the man she loves falls, then indeed her heart dies within her. She had loved to call Jim Airth a cowboy. She knew him to be avowedly cosmopolitan. But was he also a slave to vulgar pride? Being plain Jim Airth himself, did he grudge noble birth and ancient lineage to those to whom they rightfully belonged?