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He could hold this newspaper job, he felt, and outside that he didn't care very much for the time being; his pride had received some severe jolts. It was vastly better than day labor, anyway. He hurried up the four flights of stairs to the cheap little quarters they occupied, saying when he saw Angela at the gas range: "Well, I guess our railroad days are over."
Harry and Katie found walking so much pleasanter than riding in the rude cart that they refused to get into the vehicle again, although urged to do so very strongly both by Mr. and Mrs. Russell. For his part, Harry declared that he infinitely preferred walking; and Katie, on being appealed to, said that the jolts of the wagon made her head ache. So these two continued their walk.
Writing from Ashantee in 1912 she said: "I know it is unrest I know it all yet the true picture is that of going thousands of miles to where I am not needed, and leaving my two best friends. I long for the work and can't wait. Between now and it, just think what bumps and jolts and frights and moans. Oh, what is it all about?" Nelka spent that winter with her aunt Martha in Washington.
As the wagon began to ascend the hill, the road was so rough that the springs smote together with pitiless jolts, and the ladies uttered some irrepressible moans. "Never mind, my dear," said the colonel, turning about to his wife, "we've got all the English there is at Ha-Ha Bay, any way." Whereupon the driver gave him a wink of sudden liking and good-fellowship.
"What do you know about the graces of conversation? You are better fitted to talk of the disgraces of conduct." "Slow, John. But I know that a truth to be interesting must be whimsical or so blunt that it jolts." "But didn't it jolt you when I said that you must go into the office after the liquor?" "Yes; but cruelly, John. You must never jolt cruelly. I gad, I'm getting old.
"That's what they call 'em, Geoff but there ain't much boxin' to it; real boxin' don't go down wid d' sports, it's d' punch they wanter see good, stiff wallops as jars a guy an' makes his knees get wobbly swings and jolts as makes a guy blind an' deaf an' sick. Oh, I been like that, an' I know an' it ain't all candy t' hear everybody yellin' to the other guy to go in an' finish ye!"
A great portion of the way was over what is called a corduroy road, which is made by throwing trunks of trees into a marsh, and leaving them to settle there. The very slightest of the jolts with which the ponderous carriage fell from log to log, was enough, it seemed, to have dislocated all the bones in the human body.
About the same time that the Scotch "party" left the Bay, several of the other parties set out, some large and some small, each under its appointed leader, to colonise the undulating plains of the Zuurveld. Soon the pilgrims became accustomed to the nightly serenade of hyena and jackal also to breakneck steeps, and crashing jolts, and ugly tumbles.
To discuss the effect of this war upon the relations of men and women to each other is to enter upon the analysis of a secular process compared with which even the vast convulsions and destructions of this world catastrophe appear only as jolts and incidents and temporary interruptions.
"Now then," said she, "get along as fast as you can. I shall not mind the jolts." "Phoebe," said Miss Panney, as she entered the Cobhurst door, "it's a long time since I have seen you, and I have not been in this house for eight years. I hope you will be able to tell me something about this sudden sickness, for Mike is as stupid as a stone post, and knows nothing at all."
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