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Consequently, the foul Augean stable of vice and iniquity, for the time being, at least, was in a great degree cleansed and purified. The leaders of that foul army of vicious men and women were gradually rooted out and driven away from their noxious haunts. Some found a congenial haven in the State prison, a few reformed, and many died in want.
It is no exaggeration to say that, to a European of any sensibility, who, for the first time, wanders back into these valleys away from the haunts of the natives the ineffable repose and beauty of the landscape is such, that every object strikes him like something seen in a dream; and for a time he almost refuses to believe that scenes like these should have a commonplace existence.
Up and up climbed the train, through the little white villages in the valley nooks, banked with whiter snow; through the narrow gorges, sometimes hanging over them, under steep granite walls seared with ice-filled cracks, their brows hung with icicles. Truro Pass is not so high as the Brenner, but it has a grand, wild look in winter, remote as it is from the haunts of men.
"I think it right to inform your lordship," said Crossan, "that Mr. Godfrey D'Aubigny has just been arrested in the streets." "Good!" I said. "I hope that whoever has him won't let him go." "He's to be tried by court martial," said Crossan, "on suspicion of being a spy." Godfrey actually haunts me.
"Her soul haunts him who comes here with the plea that her mummy be removed to On, where she dwelt in life, and laid with the respected dead, in the necropolis." Kenkenes shrugged his shoulders. "I trust the unhappy soul will not trouble us. We came here by way of misadventure not to disturb her. But how came it they did not entomb her nearer On?" "She betrayed one great man and tempted another.
The stranger demanded, in a voice that lost none of its depth or firmness, "Is hunger a crime, that they who dwell so far from the haunts of selfishness, visit it with their anger?" "The foot of Christian man never approached the gates of Wish-Ton-Wish to be turned away in uncharitableness, but that which is freely given should not be taken in licentiousness.
Fortune smiled on your youthful audacity. You grew particular in horses and dress, frequented public haunts, and being a deuced good- looking fellow, with an inborn air of gentility and some sort of education, you became sufficiently well received to acquire in a short time the manner and tone of a what shall I say? a gentleman, and the taste to like suitable associates. This is my case too!
To persuade him to leave his desolate haunts might be a laborious and tedious task; meanwhile, all my benevolent intentions would be frustrated by his want of sustenance. It was proper, therefore, to carry bread with me, and to place it before him.
You might go into a hundred barrack-rooms or soldier's haunts and never hear such a ditty as "Champagne Charley" or "Not for Joseph."
The ordinary practice, however, of the monarch and his courtiers seems to have fallen short of the true sportsman's ideal. Instead of seeking the more dangerous kinds of wild beasts in their native haunts, and engaging with them under the conditions designed by nature, the Parthians were generally content with a poorer and tamer method.
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