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A horror used to come over me quite causeless so that I had to bellow aloud; and then the farmers used to beat me. And every time I tried to get out of it all by hanging myself, they beat me worse than ever. The parish council decided I was to be beaten.
That excitement over, the feeling increased every hour, and many urged the summary hanging of Cora. Scannell had duly prepared for all this, and order was preserved, although several hundred men formed in line and proceeded to the County Jail to force their way in, seize Cora and hang him forthwith.
It was a warm night in April, with a waning moon hanging like a hunter's horn high overhead, when the subject of this sketch drew his first breath. Ushered into a strange world in the fulfillment of natural laws, he lay trembling on a bed of young grass, listening to the low mooings of his mother as she stood over him in the joy and pride of the first born.
The girls dance in the centre, taking such tiny steps, that the lifting of their feet from the ground is hardly perceptible, the arms held down to the sides and the eyes demurely downcast. The hair is worn tied in a knot behind the head, but with a long tail hanging down the back.
He had his work to do, happiness or no happiness, and by all the virtue of manhood he would not fail in it as far as success or failure was a question of his own resolve. The few books he owned were placed on hanging shelves; among them those which he had purchased for Clara since their marriage. But reading was as much a thing of the past as drawing.
Everything passed so quickly; the tree quite forgot to notice itself, there was so much to look at all around. The yard opened on a garden full of flowers; the roses were so fresh and sweet, hanging over a little trellis, the lime-trees were in blossom, and the swallows flew about, saying: 'Quirre-virre-vil, my husband has come home; but it was not the fir-tree they meant.
"That little mistake o' yours about the copper's nark. I'm goin' to forget all about that now." "Thank you, Brand," answered Jim earnestly. "We all make mistakes, don't we?" "That's right, sir," said Monkey. "Only that's a mistake I never made and never would." Some of the lads were still hanging about the yard. They knew, too. Maudie knew.
They basked in the glow, and, with delight watched the great beds of coals form. They took off part of their clothing, hanging it before the fire, and when it was dry and warm put it on again. Then they served the rest the same way, and by and by they wore nothing but warm garments. "I guess two such terrible fighters as you," said Ross to Henry and Paul, "wouldn't mind a bite to eat.
The town itself is cheerful, with decorative bits of window-gardening, hanging dormers, abundance of flowers growing everywhere, and much life animating its old and new quarters.
It was too much like patching up a dying man in a civilised country for the pleasure of hanging him, or like fatting up a starving man in a cannibal country for the satisfaction of eating him. "And I had this. In further support of my position I had this. My friend, the Divorce Court is a cynical institution.
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