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'I'm very sorry, ma'am, said Francie. 'I humbly beg the Lord's pardon, and yours, for my wickedness. 'H'm, grunted the lady. 'Did ye see nobody else? 'No, ma'am, said Francie, with the face of an angel, 'except Jock Crozer, that gied me the billet. 'Jock Crozer! cried the lady. 'I'll Crozer them! Crozers indeed! What next? Are we to repose the lives of a suffering remnant in Crozers?
It remains but to be said that the rest of the party and the remnant of their stock were soon brought in to Somerset, where a cattle station was formed.
A remnant of feudal serfdom still deprived certain of the rural classes, subject to the tenement law, of the right to marry or bequeath what they possessed to their children without permission of their lord. If they left the land which made them liable to this tyranny, their heritage reverted of right to the proprietor of the fief.
The Irish race get but little credit for industry or perseverance; but in this they are most unjustly maligned, as many testimonies already cited from friend and foe, clearly demonstrate. If one more be wanting, I would point to a fact in the history of the worn-out remnant of our Famine-emigrants, who had tenacity of life enough to survive their endless hardships and journeyings.
For two successive days the unequal conflict lasted; it was only the circumstance that the king after receiving two wounds had to be carried off from the field of battle, which gave the Roman commander the opportunity of breaking off the virtually lost battle, and throwing himself with the small remnant of his troops into Cabira.
He was no longer capable of caring for any one except Ralph. The remnant of his cowardly heart was passionately and wholly given to his son. He meditated laying his case before Ralph. as one physician to another, then the inmost soul of him shuddered at the very thought. Rather than have Ralph know, he would die a thousand deaths.
Possessing a remnant of their means when they gave up farming, two of the brothers, James and Robert, established a small general store in Grahamstown, while John and Frank set up a joint waggon and took to hunting and trading on a large scale.
"An old race, maybe," Thorvald mused, "a very old race, perhaps in decline, reduced to a remnant in numbers with good reason to retire into hiding. No, we've discovered no cities, no evidence of a native culture past or present. But this " he touched the front of his blouse "was found on the shore of an island. We may have been looking in the wrong place for our natives."
In spite of all their genuine regret, however, there was not one of them who carried Ivan's bitterness to bed with him that night. They believed in the righteousness of their act. He saw it as it was: cowardly and cold-blooded murder. Here, then, was a little more faith lost; one more tradition gone; another shred of his remnant of faith in humanity torn from him and flung into the mud.
'Oh Thou, she cried, 'who hast taught me such deep love for this one remnant of the promise of a happy life, out of whose affliction, even, perhaps the comfort springs that he is ever a relying, loving child to me never growing old or cold at heart, but needing my care and duty in his manly strength as in his cradle-time help him, in his darkened walk through this sad world, or he is doomed, and my poor heart is broken!
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