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Tardy scruples had come to him a few days before his ordination, a semi-consciousness that he was binding himself without having clearly questioned his heart and mind. But he had avoided doing so, living in the dizzy bewilderment of his decision, fancying that he had lopped off all human ties and feelings with a voluntary hatchet-stroke.
One entering had, moreover, to turn out, as it were, for the trees, and take a circuitous route around them to the right to the front-door path, which was quite slippery with a film of green moss. There had been, years ago, a gap betwixt the trees a gate's width but now none could enter unless the branches were lopped, and Eben Merritt would not allow that.
The park is an oasis in the surrounding desert, at the entrance of which the traveller comes upon a mud-hut, where the custom-house officials lie in wait for him. Such is the fief of Les Touches, from which the Revolution lopped its feudal rights. The paludiers, however, continue to call it "the chateau," and they would still say "seigneur" if the fief were not now in the female line.
No worst thing ever done in the name of Christianity, no vilest corruption of the Church, can destroy the eternal fact that the core of it is in the heart of Jesus. Branches innumerable may have to be lopped off and cast into the fire, yet the word I am the vine remaineth.
While in weakening that nation he had rudely lopped the strength of an old French ally, yet he had not destroyed it, and he had exercised what all Europe still admitted to be a right that of superior force. Austria, on the other hand, had been an old and inveterate rival of France in the race for territorial extension.
"Mon Dieu!" exclaimed the Frenchman, reverting to his mother tongue as he never did except under the stress of great excitement. "Who done it?" queried Red Sanders, looking suspiciously at the mucker. "Head-hunters," said Theriere. "God! What an awful fate for that poor girl!" Billy Byrne went white. "Yeh don't mean dat dey've lopped off her block?" he whispered in an awed voice.
"If I could get into the waggon and go home alone and get the fire started and the afternoon work done ready for supper before mother comes! They will not need me to pilot them home at any rate." But things have to be faced, not run away from, in life; and trials take their time and cannot be lopped into easier length. Diana did what she could.
I took a ladder quickly, set it against the wall, mounted it, and from the cypress I had seen moving I lopped some of the boughs. The sobbing ceased. As the boughs fell down from the tree I saw a woman's face, tear-stained, staring at me. It seemed to me a lovely face. "'Which is his grave? she said.
All were drenched with the water in coming ashore, cold and hungry, worn out by the fatigues of the night and morning, they lopped down around the fires, the sorriest looking gathering that it had ever been our misfortune to witness.
I may add here that when jack is lopped in order to remove parasites, they do not spring out again in the same way.
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