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Nothin'." "Blanchard's a far-seein' chap," answered Sam Bonus stoutly. "An' a gude master; an' us'll stick together, fair or foul." "You may think it, but wait," said a small man in the corner. Charles Coomstock, nephew of the widow of that name already mentioned, was a wheelwright by trade and went lame, owing to an accident with hot iron in youth. "Ax Clem," continued Mr. Coomstock.
"Is the world come to its end, then, that Billy Bosistow keeps open shop on a Sunday mornin'?" "'Tisn' like that at all. . . . You see, Sam's a far-seein' man, or I've tried to make him so. I reckon there's no man in Polpier'll turn out in a kit smellin' stronger of camphor, against the moth. "'Tis terrible sudden, all this," said Nicky-Nan, ruminating. "'Tis worse than sudden.
"I kin think of sixty-nine things it might be," said Scattergood, "but I got a feelin' it hain't none of 'em." "We shouldn't of come away on this vacation," said Mandy. "Johnnie Bones is too young a boy to leave in charge." "Johnnie Bones is a dum good lawyer, Mandy, and a dum far-seein' young man. I don't calc'late Johnnie's done us no harm. Hain't no hurry, Mandy.
"Well," he said, "I'm going to take up my abode here for a week or two." "I'm real glad," said Ranks, his little eyes lighting up at the prospect. He remembered how profitable this man had proved before. "The missis'll be glad, too," he added. "I 'lows she's a far-seein' wummin. We kep a best room fer such folk as you, now.
"We can all see it after it's happened, when it's too late." "But the big men were smarter," Saxon remarked. "They were luckier," Tom contended. "Some won, but most lost, an' just as good men lost. It was almost like a lot of boys scramblin' on the sidewalk for a handful of small change. Not that some didn't have far-seein'. But just take your pa, for example.
"Aye, I hope so, I b'lieve 'tis so; but you'll have to live hard, an' work hard, an' be hard, if you wants to prosper here. Your gran'faither stood to the work like a giant, an' the sharpest-fashion weather hurt him no worse than if he'd been a granite tor. Steel-built to his heart's core, an' needed to be." "An' I be a stern, far-seein' man, same as him.
"Seth's a far-seein' boy, an' a good boy in 'most everything," she said, in a tone indicating wholehearted affection; "but he's like most folks with head-pieces, I guess. He don't stop at things which it is given to men to understand. Ef I wus a man I'd say of Seth, he's li'ble to git boostin' his nose into places not built fer a nose like his.
I never ought to have left 'e a far-seein' man, same as me. Blast him! I'd like to tear thicky damned fur off you, for I lay it comed from him." "They were killing me, Will; and never a word from you." "I knaw, I knaw. What's wan girl against a parish full, an' a blustering chap made o' diamonds?" "The things doan't warm me; they make me shiver. But now you can forgive me that's all I care for.
"Clothes!" he said. "If she marries she'll go out of black, and then she'll have to have new ones, and lots of 'em. That would make a big hole in her money, Asaph." The other smiled. "I always knowed you was a far-seein' feller, Thomas; but it stands to reason that Marietta's got a lot of clothes that was on hand before she went into mournin', and she's not the kind of woman to waste 'em.
I fixed the little place fur her, an' I took my traps t' the lean-to so as t' give her plenty o' room, an' by an' by, like it sometimes happens after a stormy, lowerin' day, the sun bu'st through, an' toward the close the glory seemed right startlin'. I can see her face a shinin' now every time I shet my eyes. An' she grew that wise an' far-seein' that it made me oneasy.
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