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Neither toil nor anguish was to be compared to the dread loss of a life sustained by that departed soul. In a few days all this solemn crisis was over, and life went on again in its ordinary tame current, closing over the dishonoured grave where Fred found his rest, henceforward nameless in the world that had suffered his existence as a cumberer of the ground for so many years.
I can help no one be of use to no one. I am a mere cumberer of the ground. It would be better if I were away." "Hush! Do not dare to say that," answered Mr. Cardross.
To-morrow you'll be a nameless cumberer of busy streets, useful only to the street-car companies to shake down for nickels.
As he finished directing her, she stooped down and kissed his hand, and then vanished in the darkness. "Perhaps I'm not yet a cumberer of the ground," murmured the old man, wiping a sudden moisture from his eyes. Ida found the party, on whose companionship she had in a measure forced herself, waiting and calling for her.
It was to this tiny strip of holy land that the Pope had come the land where a Faith had sprouted two thousand years ago, and where, unless God spoke in fire from heaven, it would presently be cut down as a cumberer of the ground.
Is it possible that I can go with confidence to that Father who has so long borne with this unbelieving, doubting, rebellious child? Why has he not cut off this cumberer of the ground long ago? His long-suffering and unbounded mercy, O how free! how unfathomable!
The revenge so ardently longed-for since the hour her mother had invoked the curse of heaven upon this man, was here. What though his boy did perish, by an ignominous death. A more worthless cumberer of the earth did not exist. Ah! that cold, sneering voice on the winter's eve so long ago; her mother's tears! As he had sown so should he reap, and her hands would help to gather in the harvest.
After having been admired and valued as if its leaves were all emeralds and its buds apples of gold, it was spurned and ridiculed and everywhere cut down as a cumberer of the ground. The faults attributed to it did not belong to the tree, but were the effects of the climate into which it had been removed.
The wearer of a body that, with tolerably good treatment ought to last for seventy years, must then, according to popular judgment, spend nearly half of that time in learning how to play his part in the world, barely a fifth in carrying out God's designs in and for him, and then remain for a quarter of a century a cumberer of the home and earth.
A fine wreck of a man this useless cumberer of the earth. "I shouldn't be worth my mate if I did get better," he says, reflectively, and without the faintest trace of bitterness. "Nought but lumber in every one's road. Nay, I'd a deal sooner shift a'together. I've allus worked 'ard it 'ud not coom nat'ral to be idle. I'm ready to go, if it's the A'mighty's will."
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