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Much that had made life pleasant between 1870 and 1890 perished in the ruin, and among the earliest wreckage had been the fortunes of Clarence King. The lesson taught whatever the bystander chose to read in it; but to Adams it seemed singularly full of moral, if he could but understand it. In 1871 he had thought King's education ideal, and his personal fitness unrivalled.
as thou pratest, 'tis plain that they have willed on the very outset to inculcate this truth on the mind of every man, no barren and inconsequential dogma, but an effectual, ever influencing and productive rule of life, that he is born a debtor, lives a debtor aye, friend, and when thou diest, will not some judicious bystander, no recreant as thou to the bonds of nature, but a good borrower and true remark, as did his grandsire before him on like occasions, that thou hast 'paid the debt of nature'? Ha!
Besides bein' gorgeous in the extreme, I took it as bein' a compliment to my sect, the way that fountain wuz laid out ten or a dozen wimmen, and only one or two men. But after I got it all fixed out in my mind what that lofty and impressive figger meant, a bystander a-standin' by explained it all out to me.
I am not here to seek medical assistance for a grandparent who succumbed to disappointment that time when Samuel J. Tilden got counted out, or for a great-grandparent who entered into Eternal Rest very unexpectedly and in a manner entirely uncalled for as a result of being an innocent bystander in one of those feuds that were so popular in my native state immediately following the Mexican War.
I had not noticed where we were going, but now I saw we were beside the railroad, and from a knot of men standing beside the track I divined that it was here the car had been found. The siding, however, was empty. Except a few bits of splintered wood on the ground, there was no sign of the accident. "Where is the freight car that was rammed?" the doctor asked a bystander.
If you go against me for hitting him with a stick, after he had hit me with a blacksmith's hammer, I shall have to go against you for shooting me with a gun." "That is between you and me, sir. You will find a bystander may shoot a malefactor to save the life of a citizen. Confine your defense, at present, to the point at issue. Have you any excuse, as against this young man?"
He inquired of a bystander the name of the gentleman; the answer was "Dr. Fenwick." That, the rest of the day, he felt much disturbed in his mind, not liking to volunteer such a charge against a man of apparent respectability and station; but that his conscience would not let him sleep that night, and he had resolved at morning to go to the magistrate and make a clean breast of it.
"Ladies and gentlemen," said Gerald, "I come from India, and I can do a conjuring entertainment the like of which you've never seen. When I see two shillings on the shawl I'll begin." "I dare say you will!" said a bystander; and there were several short, disagreeable laughs.
"There's Deacon Adams over to Pattin's," suggested a bystander; "an' they do say he's a reg'lar rip-roarer at prayin'! But 'twould take four hours to go and fetch him." "Too long," said the Doctor. "Down in Mexico, at the cathedral," said another, "they pray for a feller after he's dead, when yer pay 'em fur it, an' they say it's jist the thing sure pop.
He would peck out your eyes if he could, and devour you and your substance, as he has done that of many others. That bird of ill omen is Sir Giles Mompesson." "Impossible!" cried a bystander, indignantly. "Yet, now I look again, 'tis certainly he." "As certain as that we are standing here," said the apprentice; "and if you want further proof, behold, he is closing his visor.
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