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However, I will say this of you, Maurice of Saxe, that you are about as good as any of the crown snatchers, or the august Diet, either and if you would but stop running after the petticoats, you would be a considerable man!" Count Maurice of Saxe running back from Courland like a drenched hen! And would be a considerable man! Maurice of Saxe!
We Europeans are busy with our multifarious interests and duties, while Egyptian Moslems are either entangled in the web of their environment, as are the fellahin, or eager snatchers at the gifts of civilisation, as are the more or less cultured effendis, or mere hair-splitters in futile religious controversy, as are too many of the ulema or sages at the great collegiate mosque of al-Azhar.
Their first landing was at the island of the Harpies: "The daughters of the earth and sea, The dreadful snatchers, who like women were Down to the breast, with scanty coarse black hair About their heads, and dim eyes ringed with red, And bestial mouths set round with lips of lead, But from their gnarled necks there began to spring Half hair, half feathers, and a sweeping wing Grew out instead of arm on either side, And thick plumes underneath the breast did hide The place where joined the fearful natures twain.
He enlarged and expatiated upon its symptoms until his subjects could fairly feel the grilling at the pit of their collective stomach. One by one they came forward, the yellow-eyed, the pasty-faced feeders on fried breakfasts, snatchers of hasty noon-meals, sleepers on gorged stomachs. About them he wove the glamour of his words, the arch-seducer, until the dollars fidgeted in their pockets.
These goldfinches, for a case in point, can sing and they have your sympathy. The sparrows can only make a horrid noise and you contemn them. That is the compensation. The snatchers can never know the joy of singing or of being pitied by ladies." "N... o, perhaps not," she consented doubtfully. The underglow of amusement in her eyes shone nearer to the surface.
I defend nothing. I merely recognise and accept. Sparrows finches. It's the way of the world the established division of the world." She frowned incomprehension. "The established division of the world ?" "Exactly," said he. "Sparrows finches the snatchers and the snatched-from. Everything that breathes is either a sparrow or a finch.
Inside there was lines of benches a few miles long, and on them sat every dog in America. If all the dog snatchers in Montreal had worked night and day for a year, they couldn't have caught so many dogs. And they was all shouting and barking and howling so vicious that my heart stopped beating. For at first I thought they was all enraged at my presuming to intrude.
"If things are really at such a sorry pass," she said, "I will commend my former proposal to you with increased confidence. You should keep a dragon. After all, you only wish to protect your garden; and that" she embraced it with her glance "is not so very big. "Your proposal is a surrender to my contention," said Peter. "You would set a snatcher to catch the snatchers.
There remained the pasturage of extensive moors, where the valleys often afforded good grass, and upon which the whole cattle belonging to the community fed indiscriminately during the summer, under the charge of the Town-herd, who regularly drove them out to pasture in the morning, and brought them back at night, without which precaution they would have fallen a speedy prey to some of the Snatchers in the neighbourhood.
"Rider of wind-driven steed, Little gat I to my need, When I left my fair birth-stead, From the snatchers of worm's bed; But this man's-bane hanging here, Gift of woman good of cheer, Proves the old saw said not ill, <i>Best to bairn is mother still</i>." Haflidi said it was easily seen that she thought the most of him.
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