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At such times the passengers would call down encouragingly to the toilers of the rope, exhorting them to patience, and holding out hopes of possible compensation in another world for the hardness of their lot, while others contributed to buy salves and liniments for the crippled and injured.
Spruce fervently; "For we never knows from one day to another whether we may be sound or crippled, considering the diseases which now flies in the air with the dust in the common road, as the papers tell us, and dust is a thing we cannot prevent, do what we may, for the dust is there by the will of the Almighty, Who made us all out of it." She paused. John Walden smiled and pointed to a chair,
"You are a person to be envied," she said to Keriway; "you have created a fairyland, and you are living in it yourself." "Envied?" He shot the question out with sudden bitterness. She looked down and saw the wistful misery that had come into his face. "Once," he said to her, "in a German paper I read a short story about a tame crippled crane that lived in the park of some small town.
"It's too bad," he said at last, "that the Brigadier was so crippled that we cannot resume our interrupted voyage." Lord Hastings smiled. "I understand she is in pretty bad shape," he said. "So you don't think you can go now, eh?" "I'm afraid not, sir. A fellow can't cross the ocean except in a ship." "True enough. But why are you in Dover now?" "Why, sir?" Jack exclaimed.
They afterward burned the images, shrines, and relics of the saints of Ireland and England; they likewise burned the celebrated image of Mary at Trim, which used to perform wonders and miracles, to heal the blind, the deaf, the crippled, and persons affected with all kinds of disease; they burned the Staff of Jesus, which was in Dublin, and which wrought miracles from the time of St.
Nature, and perhaps unconscious art, have provided him with a protective exterior; he is the colour of his jungle. After he has crippled you if you survive you will never forget him. You will remember his eye, which can be unsheathed like a rapier; you will recall his lips as the expression of a relentless negative. The significance of the slight bridge on the narrow nose is less easy to define.
In the evening, as I was strolling about the town, a poor, crippled, half-witted fellow came jerking himself across the street after me and offered himself as a guide. "I'm the Teller what showed Artemus Ward around when he was here. You've heerd on me, I expect? Not? Why, he characterized me in 'Punch, he did. He asked me if Shakespeare took all the wit out of Stratford?
"'I did as she asked me, and they talked together for a few minutes. Then she came down the street with her eyes blazing, and I saw the crippled wretch standing by the lamp-post and shaking his clenched fists in the air as if he were mad with rage. She never said a word until we were at the door here, when she took me by the hand and begged me to tell no one what had happened.
Excited by so much perfectly good silence that nobody seemed to be using the Little Crippled Girl ventured gallantly forth once more into the hazardous conversational land of grown-ups. "Father?" she experimented cautiously with most commendable discretion. Fathoms deep in abstraction the Senior Surgeon stared unheeding into the whizzing black road.
Instead of the recklessness of despair, to which some might have attributed an attack with crippled ships against a force every way so greatly superior, he manifested a calm and resolute determination. His intentions were expressed with so much clearness that, as I have already observed, signals were rendered unnecessary.
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