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"I wish it was. And I wish it was my fault and yours." "I've done enough for you more than once," said the legless man; "you're big enough and strong enough to work, but you're a born loafer." "I had a job." The speaker, a shabby, unshaven man with a beastly face, whined dolefully. "And I done right; but I got the sack." "What was the job and why were you sacked?"
They were aware of something pressing toward them, and turning with a common resentment against interruption, they found themselves looking down upon the legless man. "Just dropped in to say good-by and wish you good luck," he said. His face wore a good-natured smile, and, quite innocent of self-consciousness, brought confusion upon their last moments together.
Also, the thing rustled horribly, and Fact can say what she likes. I swear it shot along quite flat, crawling, not undulating; but, ough! what a lightning, footless, legless crawl! No wonder the poor little devil of a bank-vole squeaked! The wonder was he didn't faint on the spot, for he knew what was coming.
We started on, feeling much encouraged, expecting to get beyond the picket at Tunnel Hill before daylight. But it soon commenced raining fearfully, and the walking was slippery, which made it intensely painful to my poor inflamed limbs, and chafed the skin off my stockingless feet, as they slipped up and down in legless boots.
He could not help glancing down the man's tunic at the drab trousers that hung limply from the chair. A cold shudder went through him; he was thinking of the zigzag scars on his own thighs. "Did you get it in the legs, too, Buddy?" asked the legless man, quietly. "Yes, but I had luck.... How long have you been here?" "Since Christ was a corporal. Oh, I doan know.
But let the unfortunate crouched under the key-board, her trembling hands taking the place of those feet which the master had lost, respond stupidly to the signals conveyed to her shoulder by graduated pressures from the stump of his right leg, and punishment of blows, pinchings, and sarcasms was swift and sure. The legless man was very much at home in his own house.
The writing was unmistakably Barbara's and she was ready to make that sacrifice for him! "She sha'n't do that," he said, "so help me God. What must I do to save her?" "Young man," said the legless man, "you must give me your legs." Wilmot was at first bewildered. "My legs?" "They are to be grafted on my poor old stumps," said Blizzard. "You won't die. You'll just be as I am now.
The tortuous, rough-paved streets, with their empty, gloomy porticoes; the ill-plastered palaces, with closed, discolored shutters; the little rambling square, with meager trees and stubborn grass; the Venetian garden-houses reflecting their crumbling graces in the muddy canal; the gardens without gates and the gates without gardens, the avenues leading nowhere; and the population of blind and legless beggars, of whining sacristans, which issued as by magic from between the flag-stones and dust-heaps and weeds under the fierce August sun, all this dreariness merely amused and pleased me.
"Our orator seems to have finished," observed the girl. "I shall go back upstairs and write some good-bye notes to the kind people here." "Just for curiosity, I think I'll drive across and look at the legless Demosthenes," said her companion. "I was going to do a little shopping, anyway. So I'll report later, if he's revoluting or anything exciting."
Suddenly there swooped out on a very big horse, the armless and legless figure of Cavanagh in his flaming coat, and seeing her predicament, he seized her rein somehow she never seems quite clear how saying: 'Don't be frightened, little girl, for I know who you are, and will take care of you.
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