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She proved a bewildering labyrinth of error concerning the events which Basil mentioned; and she had never even heard of the massacres by the French and Indians at Schenectady, which he in his boyhood had known so vividly that he was scalped every night in his dreams, and woke up in the morning expecting to see marks of the tomahawk on the head-board.
Now have you ever considered the results which follow these poetical readings? Romances, and indeed all works of imagination, paint sentiments and events with colors of a very different brilliancy from those presented by nature.
But her shrinking nature made it difficult for her ever to take the initiative, or to attempt to change the current of events by any strong act of her own. There was no absence of power in her composition, but a distrust of her own powers which produced the same effect.
The lawyer made a long face when I told him how we had been treated. "I told you that `possession is nine-tenths of the law, my lad, and now they are in and you are out," he answered. "It's a bad job but we'll see what can be done. We must obtain at all events your clothes, and any other private property you may possess.
Hints of his characters got known; their movements and developments were discussed, and the incidents of his story were like public events. We have nothing of this nowadays, for no writer or story rouses the same interest. Forster also told us a good deal about Carlyle, whose proof-sheets, from the abundant corrections, cost three or four times what the original 'setting' did." Thus the diary.
The others gathered round me, and when we looked into one another's eyes we understood: it was a broken wine-cup, a curious goblet of Bavarian glass. It was the goblet out of which we had all dreamt that we had drunk." I have put the story together as it seems to me it must have happened. The incidents, at all events, are facts.
The morning of the trial, so long looked forward to, had at length arrived, and the train of events which it has been my business to chronicle in this narrative was now fast drawing to an end. To me those events had been in many ways of the deepest moment.
And it was thus that Bob found his chum tenderly holding his red brother in his arms while the great journey was taken to Manito's happy land for the sorrowful. It was a happy meeting for the two chums after the exciting events that each had experienced.
For many days after the catastrophe Oliver Trembath lay in his bed suffering from severe cuts and bruises, as well as from what must have been, as nearly as possible, concussion of the brain, for he had certainly been washed down one of the winzes, although he himself retained only a confused recollection of the events of that terrible day, and could not tell what had befallen him.
The rush of other events, particularly the fight over the reduction of the tariff, had pushed this project temporarily into the background so far as they were concerned, though the "boss of the Senate" and his satellites had been losing no time in perfecting their plans regarding the choice of Altacoola as the site.
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