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At any rate he was not afraid of lightning. Aided by the flashes he searched along the side of the road until he found a branch of a tree that he shaped into a club with his knife. "I won't wake Prescott's muckers," he reflected, "and I want to be sure to attract the dog's notice if he is on guard."
And it was a strange, and, I may say, a very touching sight, to see two creatures, of different species, so intimately attached to each other; and often, as I have looked at the dog when he was gazing at his master, have I said to myself, "Surely, something or some one has blundered, and a human soul was put, by mistake, into that dog's body," for never no, sir, I will not qualify it never have I seen a greater love look from human into human eyes than I have seen gazing devotedly up into the old man's face from the eyes of that dog.
With a shudder, Nello clasped close to him his only friend, while his tears fell hot and fast on the dog's frank forehead. "Let us go, Patrasche dear, dear Patrasche," he murmured. "We will not wait to be kicked out; let us go."
Janet interposed her thanks, declining to take the dog, but he dwelt on the dog's charms, his youth, stature, appearance, fitness, and grandeur, earnestly. I had to relieve her apprehensions by questioning where the dog was. 'In Germany, he said. It was not improbable, nor less so that the dog was in Pomerania likewise. The entry of my aunt Dorothy, followed by my grandfather, was silent.
The dog starts with a fund of knowledge, which man acquires slowly and painfully. But all this does not trouble one in reading of Maeterlinck's dog. Our interest is awakened, and our sympathies are moved, by seeing the world presented to the dog as it presents itself to us, or by putting ourselves in the dog's place.
Everybody craned their necks to watch while, at the magistrate's order, Kelley weighed the block of wood on the store scales, which he put on the magistrate's table. "Fo'teen punds," said Mr. Kirby. "Take the scales away." "It had rubbed all the skin off'n the dog's neck," broke in Davy impulsively. "It was all raw an' bleedin'." "Aw, that ain't so!" cried Thornycroft.
"Then I am extremely glad he is not yours," I used to answer, fastening on the dog's collar, and making him walk at the end of a foot of chain as a punishment. "You'll never teach him like that, Vic. If you gave him a good kick in the eye now he'd remember it!" "Thanks very much for your advice," I returned, "but I should never forgive myself if I kicked any animal in the eye."
"That's all he's good for." Then I heard the little Irish groom say, "I'll give you ten bob for the dog." And another voice says, "Ah, don't you do it; the dog's same as dead- -mebby he is dead." "Ten shillings!" says the Master, and his voice sobers a bit; "make it two pounds, and he's yours." But the pals rushed in again. "Don't you be a fool, Jerry," they say.
"You close up that dog's head o' yours, Soapy, or by " "'S all right, Bud, 's all right. Don't get peeved; I'll close up tighter 'n a clam, only it's kinder tough about them teeth " "Are ye goin' t' cut it out or shall " "Aw, calm down, Bud, calm down! Take a drink; it'll do ye good."
When at length he left him, it was evident to Clare, by the solemnity of the dog's face, that he understood his duty thoroughly. Shop and baby. Once clear of the well and the wall, Clare set off running like a gaze-hound. Such was the change produced in him by joy and the satisfaction of hope, that when he entered the shop, no one at first knew him.
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