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To his amazement he found two great banners strung across the village streets bearing the words: "Vote for Forbes the People's Champion!" "Who in thunder could 'a' done that?" murmured Mr. Hopkins, staring open-mouthed at the great banners. Then he scratched his head with a puzzled air and went home. Mrs. Hopkins, a tired-looking woman in a bedraggled morning wrapper, was getting the breakfast.
The cow was by no means very nice in choosing her path; so that sometimes they had to scramble over rocks, or wade through mud and mire, and all in a terribly bedraggled condition, and tired to death, and very hungry, into the bargain. What a weary business it was! But still they kept trudging stoutly forward, and talking as they went.
There was an unusual amount of level grassy trail, though steep slopes were not lacking. During the morning I passed several bands of ragged soldiers meandering northward in rout order and some distance behind them their bedraggled women and children, all afoot and carrying their entire possessions on their heads and backs.
His gaze was steadily fixed on the House of Peers, which he saw before him as a huntsman views a fox with bedraggled brush, reduced to a trot a field or two ahead of the hounds. That House was, as he described it, "the last obstacle to Home Rule," and he was determined to do all he could to remove the obstacle.
Francis Hotel, jabbering excitedly in Italian or French, and making many gestures with their jeweled hands; Chinese and Japanese from the Oriental quarter hard by; women-of-the-town, bedraggled, sleepy-eyed and fearful; sailors, clerks, folk from apartment houses. Near the pansy bed a woman lay. She screamed piercingly at intervals. Frank learned that she was in travail.
The lonely pilgrim perceived the resemblance which his conflicting emotions bore to this wild scene, and smiled grimly. He found in all this tumult a justification for the tempest in his soul. It was not until the light of morning struggled through this universal gloom, that the weary and bedraggled traveler entered the outskirts of the then straggling but growing and busy village of Hamilton.
It may have been something to do with the general boredom of the afternoon, it may have been that he felt pity for the bedraggled aspect of the animal most probable reason of all, was that devil-may-care independence flung up from the road, as it were, expressly at himself. The dog obviously did not feel any great respect for the Cole household.
Sin Sin Wa bowed his head and knelt awhile in silence; then, standing up, he reverently laid the poor bedraggled body upon a chest. He turned and looked at his wife. Hands on hips, she confronted him, breathing rapidly, and her glance of contempt swept him up and down. "I've often threatened to do it," she said in English. "Now I've done it. They're on the wharf.
As you may remember, I had crept into the chateau like a thief in the night, wounded, bedraggled, and of miserable aspect, seeking to provoke compassion rather than admiration. Not so now that I made my second visit.
Then a small girl appeared, vainly trying with one hand to keep her kerchief on her head, while with the other she threw stones at the marauders. By and by even these disappeared; and there was nothing visible outside but that hurrying and desolate sea, and the wet, bedraggled, comfortless shore. She turned away with a shudder. All that day Keith Macleod was in despair.
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