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The woods have been despoiled; the stumps are ugly; the bushes are scorched; the pine-leaf-strewn earth is trodden into mire; the landing looks like a cattle-ford; the ground is littered with all the unsightly dibris of a hand-to-hand life; the dismantled shanty is a shabby object; the charred and blackened logs, where the fire blazed, suggest the extinction of family life.
The stove-baked clods of the previous ploughing still littered the floor; the dust that was thick everywhere doubtless came in with our last thrashing; and the dishes I had used during the last few weeks reposed unwashed among it. But Aline was clearly a woman of action. "You shockingly untidy man!" she said severely. "Carry my trunk into my room, quick.
At the table Kenny hurriedly wrote a check. "And to-morrow I want you to deposit this to Brian's account. I'm paying back what I owe him." His mouth worked. "Oh, Sid!" he said, his face scarlet. "Now, now, now, Kenny," choked the little painter, winking and making horrible faces at the littered chair, "don't you go to taking on. Don't you do it. I'll call up Westcott. The old gladiator!"
Swept clean in the morning, the floor itself, seen now through the thinning groups, was littered from end to end with scattered grain oats, wheat, corn, and barley, with wisps of hay, peanut shells, apple parings, and orange peel, with torn newspapers, odds and ends of memoranda, crushed paper darts, and above all with a countless multitude of yellow telegraph forms, thousands upon thousands, crumpled and muddied under the trampling of innumerable feet.
How different was the Empress's apartment this morning, bare and crowded with the dregs of the Paris population, from the night when I last saw it, the night of her flight, when bed-clothes still littered the floor, and gloves and little odds and ends of female finery told of recent occupation!
Turnbull, perhaps from an equal astonishment, perhaps from chivalry, stopped also and forebore to send his sword through his exposed enemy. "What's that?" asked Evan, hoarsely. A heavy scraping sound, as of a trunk being dragged along a littered floor, came from the dark shop behind them. "The old Jew has broken one of his strings, and he's crawling about," said Turnbull. "Be quick!
"It is true then, Pater," said Andor, when he had followed the old man into the little parlour all littered with papers and books. "It is true, or you would not have cried when first you embraced me." "What is true, my son?" asked the Pater. "That Elsa is to marry Erös Béla to-morrow?" "Yes, my son, that is true," said the priest simply.
Nay, never shake your head, my dear country lad, you little know the wiles of the world. 'Give him credit for the best until the worst is proved, said I, sitting up in bed smoking, with my letters littered about in front of me. 'The worst is proved, said Sir Gervas, with a darkening face.
A dingy sideboard, with four still more dingy chairs and an archaeological sofa, made up the whole of the furniture, with the exception of a circular mahogany centre-table, littered with note-books and papers. Above the mantelpiece was a fly-blown mirror with innumerable cards and notices projecting in a fringe all around, and a pair of pipe racks flanking it on either side.
And after breakfast, while Aunt Mary occupied herself with that immemorial institution, which was to lure hitherwards so many prominent citizens of St. Louis during the day, eggnogg, Peter surveyed the offerings which transformed the sitting-room. The table had been pushed back against the bookcases, the chairs knew not their time-honoured places, and white paper and red ribbon littered the floor.
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