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The amnesty, although far from being everything, was, nevertheless, a beginning, and one of favorable omen. The furrow was opened, to use the language of M. Rossi, and no doubt the ploughing would proceed. Many formidable difficulties must, however, be surmounted. On the one hand, stood the influence of the old feudal Conservative party, which frowned on the slightest change.
The statistics of the traffic which has grown in the furrow of that wind-drawn plough would be fatiguing if they did not carry you to heights of a wider and more exhilarating view. We have occupied and apportioned the billion acres of French domain among sixty million people. Here is an added domain in which no landmarks can be set which belongs to all men. Macmillan, New York, 1909.
Our hero, young Julian, early began to show a restiveness under the training he received, which sadly perplexed his plain matter-of-fact father. The latter could not conceive why the boy should sometimes leave his plough in the furrow, and sit upon a hillock, gazing curiously and admiringly upon a simple wild flower.
Equally sagacious was an Irish fox, which, pursued by the hounds, was seen by a farmer, while he was ploughing a field, to run along in the furrow directly before him.
Peter Biggin rose up and sent a bullet to plow a little furrow in the ice within an inch of Deckert's heels. "Ex-cuse me, Bart," he drawled, "but no cuss words don't go." The sheriff ignored Peter Biggin as a person who could be argued with at leisure and turned to Winton. "Come down!" he bellowed. Winton laughed. "Let me return the invitation.
For a brief minute Sadie Dean did not answer; then with very evident difficulty she said: "Pollyanna told me last night that she thought we were playing tennis too much; that it wasn't kind to Mr. Carew, as long as he can't play." "I know; but " Jimmy stopped helplessly, the frown plowing a deeper furrow into his forehead.
Tom grunted, but took to the pipe kindly, and in a few minutes, during which Kenelm left him in silence, a lowering furrow between his brows smoothed itself away.
The decision for or against California was something for serious weighing now at the last hour, and it affected the fortune and the future of every man, woman and child in all the train. Never a furrow was plowed in early Oregon but ran in bones and blood; and never a dollar was dug in gold in California or ever gained in gold by any man which did not cost two in something else but gold.
But it was not until after the Civil War that the progress of events dealt its heaviest blow at the policy of Indian seclusion. In 1867-8 the great plough of industrial civilization drew its deep furrow across the continent, from the Missouri to the Pacific, as a sign of dissolution to the immemorial possessors of the soil.
"Might I trouble you to give me some brandy, Mrs. Neville?" said John faintly. She filled a glass she had brought with her half full of water from a little irrigation furrow that ran down from the main sluit by the road, and then topped it up with brandy. He drank it, and felt decidedly better. "Dear me!" said Mrs. Neville, "there are a pair of you now.