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To hit that happy mean of rightness amid the mixed occupations of a home-mother and a fishwife, to be in especial both so bravely stripped below and so perfectly enveloped above as the deep-wading, far-striding, shrimp-netting, crab-gathering matrons or maidens who played, waist-high, with the tides and racily quickened the market, was to make grace thoroughly practical and discretion thoroughly vivid.
Has he not even put Cowley flat down upon his face, as if, already neglected, he had slipped from the lad's negligent fingers as if, indeed, Elia's far-striding meditation were to him of higher interest than the stiff measure of any poet? I recall a child, dimly through the years, that lay upon the rug before the fire to read his book, with his chin resting on both his hands.
Perhaps imagination misled him, when he thought he caught a glimpse of savage eyes, points of green flame, fading off into the black depths. But there could be no doubt as to the fresh tracks he found in the snow. There they were, the footprints of the pack, like those of so many big dogs, and among them the huge trail of the great, far-striding leader.
The once perky Tsing Hi slunk alongside the far-striding Tim, and Tim looked down at him and was half ashamed of such a "wee scrap of a Chinkee" as his first prisoner. "Come away wid ye, me little fella come away. Doan give me trouble, and ye'll fin' me gintle wid ye. Thry to maake a fool af me, and be the Holy Saints ye'll have occasion to be sorrowful."
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