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You see, his mother, the old Widdah Elderkin, she was jest about the poorest, peakedest old body over to Sherburne, and went out to days' works; and Bill Elderkin he was all for books and larnin', and old Black Hoss John he thought it was just shiftlessness: but Miry she thought he was a genius; and she got it sot in her mind that he was goin' to be President o' the United States, or some sich.
They clung to each other and painfully made their way across the miry fields to the highway, the ancient road of the Tartar Khans. At last Jacob succumbed to the awful strain and sank to the ground. "Let me die," moaned the child. "Oh, dear brother; you must live! We will find our way back to Togarog to papa and mamma. How they would grieve if I came back alone."
There had been a heavy shower some days before, and the streets were more than usually miry, but in the fandak, whose owner had no marked taste for cleanliness, the accumulated dirt of all the rainy season had been stirred, with results I have no wish to record. A few donkeys in the last stages of starvation had been sent in to gather strength by resting, one at least was too far gone to eat.
The army, which was composed chiefly of foreign mercenaries, halted in deliberation when, lo! a torch was suddenly cast on high over the walls; it gleamed a moment and then hissed in the miry pool below. "It is the signal of our friends within, as agreed on," cried old Colonna. "Pietro, advance with your company!"
His body becomes at last like a miry way, where the spirits are beclogged and cannot pass: all his members are out of office, and his heels do but trip up one another. He is a blind man with eyes, and a cripple with legs on.
As Captain Carroll urged his horse along the miry road to La Mision Perdida, he was struck with certain changes in the landscape before him other than those wrought by the winter rains.
And then perhaps at last, when we have peeped again and again, through loss and suffering, at the dark background of life; when we have seen the dreariest corner of the lonely road, where the path grows steep and miry, and the light is veiled by scudding cloud and dripping rain, there begins to dawn upon us the sense of a beautiful and holy patience, the thought that these grey ashes of life, in which the glowing cinders sink, which once were bright with leaping flame, are not the end that the flame and glow are there, although momently dispersed.
Whether the postilion were in their master's confidence or not is not certain, but just before midnight they plunged into a narrow, miry road that traversed wastes and low coppices; the plash of the horses' feet showed the tract to be marshy and full of pools. Her ladyship looked out across the dreary fen and exclaimed, "I'll be damned, they have set us out like ducks!"
On either side the narrow and miry street, fierce and haggard forms some leaning against the ruined walls of blackened huts, some seated at the threshold, some lying at full length in the mud presented groups that at once invoked pity and aroused alarm; pity for their squalor, alarm for the ferocity imprinted on their savage aspects.
He pointed out the way, and Harold trudged off to accomplish, as best he might, five Irish miles over miry highways and byways through the darkness of the December evening. This was the young American's first practical experience of boycotting.
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