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By this incident I do not mean to suggest that there are not honorable men in the legal profession. Most of them are men of the highest honor, as are most business men, most persons of consequence in every department of life. But you don't look for character in the proprietors, servants, customers and hangers-on of dives.
He now left London for Combe Florey. "I dine with the rich in London, and physic the poor in the country; passing from the sauces of Dives to the sores of Lazarus." His bodily discomforts increased, but his love of fun never diminished. He wrote as merrily as ever to Miss Harcourt: "Neither of us, dear Georgiana, would consent to survive the ruin of the Church.
Throughout the next few hours they must suffer the torture of Dives with one meager pint of water to share between them. Of course the wine and spirit must be shunned like a pestilence. To touch either under such conditions would be courting heat, apoplexy, and death. And next day! He tightened his jaws before he answered "We will console ourselves with a bottle of champagne for dinner.
He pours out his fervid soul in poetry; he sways to and fro, he soars, he dives, in his restless speculations; his lips drop eloquence; he touches the canvas, and it glows with beauty; he sweeps the strings, and they thrill with an ecstatic meaning.
The cases were taken out in the country several miles from Kiowa before Moses E. Wright, a Free Methodist and a justice of the peace of Moore township. The men were found guilty, and for the first time in the history of Barber County, all dives were closed.
Instantly it realizes that it has overdone the matter, and makes a desperate effort to straighten back on its course. A partial success darts it to the right. Number Three becomes ashamed and flustered. Its course from there on is a series of erratic dives and swoops. I should be very sorry to lose Number Three, for I am quite confident that I could never make another such.
"'What next, I wonder! said the hen, 'you have nothing to do, and so you sit brooding over such fancies. Lay eggs, or purr, and you'll forget them. "'But it is so delightful to swim on the water! said the duck 'so delightful when it dashes over one's head, and one dives down to the very bottom. "'Well, that must be a fine pleasure! said the hen. 'You are crazy, I think.
"Two for the count!" cried Pierre, making his pan crack like the blow of a beaver's tail when he dives. Then they went out into the snowy night, and sat down together on the sill of the stable-door, and laughed until the tears ran down their cheeks. "My faith!" said Jean. "That was like the ancient time. It is from the good wood that strong paddles are made, eh, cousin?"
The cows swish their tails beneath them on hot afternoons; they paint rivers so green that when a moorhen dives one expects to see its feathers all green when it comes up again. I like to think of the fish balanced against the stream like flags blown out; and of water-beetles slowly raising domes of mud upon the bed of the river.
May the good God preserve her!" and he lifted his glass toward the green bench. The table drank the toast, in silence. In the course of the first few days we learned what all Dives had known for the past fifty years or so that the focal point of interest in the inn was centred in Madame Le Mois. She drew us, as she had the country around for miles, to circle close about her green bench.
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