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I'll be writin' you agin when we hit Morgantown. "Your old Muvver Jim." Douglas laid the letter gently on the table, his hand still resting upon it. He looked helplessly at the little, shrunken figure in the opposite chair. Polly had made no sound, but her head had slipped lower and lower and she now sat very quietly with her face in her hands. She had been taught by Toby and Jim never to whimper.
"Where'll I take him?" he stammered nervously, as he recognized the shrunken figure. "He said something about the General Hospital. He's going fast." "He used to call there, regular," asserted the cabby. "Anybody else git hurt?" "Christ, yes! It's a slaughter-pen up there. Beat it, or he'll cash in before you can get him to the hospital."
Within the church we saw again the beautiful tombs of the night before, and others like them, and again we saw the pulpit of John Cotton, which we could make out a little better than at first, because its garlands were a little more withered and shrunken away.
He admitted that Florence had the advantage in her cathedral, but he stoutly insisted that the Arno was but a poor, shrunken river compared with his own; for wherever Bulldog may have been born, he boasted himself to be a citizen of Muirtown, and always believed that there was no river to be found anywhere like unto the Tay.
Words can give no conception of the ghastly desolation and hopeless dreariness of the scene which meets one's eyes from the crest of a high ridge. The barren appearance of the sand is only intensified by the few sickly and shrunken gums that are dotted over it.
When they had heard their Mass, they were approached by the Sacristan, a little, shrunken, brown old man in a cassock, who offered to serve them as a guide. The church was very dim and very silent. Here and there a woman knelt at prayer; here and there a candle burned.
No grown-up person of the village meddled with anything, no matter how curious; for this consistent, if unspoken, trust displayed by Shangois appealed to their better instincts. Besides, they, like the children, had a wholesome fear of the disreputable, shrunken, dishevelled little notary, with the bead-like eyes, yellow stockings, hooked nose and palsied left hand.
He almost thought that shrouds were for the old and shrunken; and that they never wrapped the young and graceful form in their ghastly folds. A knell from the church bell broke harshly on these youthful thoughts. Another! Again! It was tolling for the funeral service. A group of humble mourners entered the gate: wearing white favours; for the corpse was young.
José Fyfer's dramatic career was over. When she came out of the hospital, three months later, she did very well indeed with her crutches. But the merry-eyed woman had vanished she of the Wapello colouring that had persisted during all these years. In her place limped a wan, shrunken, tragic little figure whose humour had soured to a caustic wit.
An enormous mound rises above the place, which was formerly occupied I quote from Murray first by a citadel of the Romans, then by a castle of the princes of Nassau, razed by Louis XIV. It is the biggest thing at Orange it is bigger than all Orange put together and its permanent massiveness makes light of the shrunken city.
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