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Still farther down the room sobs were echoed back to me from Captain Pharo's bursting heart. So that I was gratified, at the next round, to hear Captain Pharo declare that he felt the necessity of going home at once to have a copy of the verses made and "a ya-ard built around 'em, Judah." "Come!" Gurdon whispered to Fluke; "we should give up playing at this hour, and take those girls home."
It was too tender a thought for explanation, this way of taking me with brotherly fondness to the family bosom. "How do you like Cap'n Pharo's new blouse?" said his wife. In truth I hardly knew how to express my emotions; while he sniffed with affected disdain of his own brightness and beauty, I was so dim-looking, in comparison, sitting there!
There was naught to do, in Captain Pharo's exalted frame of mind, but to follow the commanding flower; but when that had become once more congenially distracted I returned to the ball-room to observe there.
"Give me sea-room here! give me sea-room!" we saw and heard the preparatory swinging of Captain Pharo's mallet "cl'ar the way thar, Shamgar; for by the everlastin' clam, I'm a-goin' to give ye a clip that'll send ye t' the west shore o' Machias!" A mighty concussion followed. Elder Skates, as if reminded by these thunders of his duty, blushed deeply with shame and penitence.
The world looked further off to him, the woes, and wants, and crimes of our poor humanity seemed quite a considerable distance away from him. Onclouded prosperity had hardened Elnathan's heart it will sometimes hard as Pharo's. But he wuz a visitor and one of the relations on his side, and I done well by him, killed a duck and made quite a fuss.
"It stands to reason that if I could see Pharo's mummy it would bring me nearer to him, and them plagues and that wickedness of hisen, than Brother Ridley's sermon could.
Dazzled, I turned away from the refulgent keenness of his wink. But I did not take the direction that wink had indicated. I had an invitation, not from Vesty, but from the two most ancient of the Basins to tea, and I stopped in, a solitary and thoughtful bean-pole, at Captain Pharo's on the way. The music-box was playing.
They're amazin' proud an' ch'ice of 'em, an' ye don't want to hurt their feelin's, but ye'd better shove 'em right outer the sasser inter yer britches pocket 'n eat 'em leastways that 's the way they 'fected me." Visions of a past mortal suffering flitted across Captain Pharo's face. "I'll try," I said.
And she said she was so glad that she had seen for herself the great truth that the Pharo spirit of injustice and cruelty wuz crushed forever. But Robert said that Pharo's cruelty sprang from unlimited power and from havin' absolute control over a weaker and helpless class; he said that would arouse the Pharo spirit in any man.
Standin' right here I seem to sort o' see a vision o' things comin' on like a pernicious fever. I seem to see all them boys good boys, mind you, as far as they go only they don't travel more'n 'bout an inch lyin', an' slanderin', an' thievin', an' shootin', an' an' committin' every blamed sin ever invented since Pharo's daughter got busy makin' up fairy yarns 'bout them bulrushes "
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