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It was the final result of the revolution and both parties, the nominally conservative as well as the democratic party, had co- operated towards it and concurred in it that of this venerable structure, which at the beginning of the present epoch, though full of chinks and tottering, still stood erect, not one stone was at its close left upon another.
But in the deadly hush between the lift of the weapon and its fall there came a gush of faint, childish laughter and then across the range of his vision, far away and dim, he saw the sun-bright head of his baby girl, as, with the pretty, tottering run of a two-year-old, she moved across the grass of the dooryard. His hands relaxed: the fork fell to the ground; his head lowered.
Every eye was instantly turned toward the stately pillar of white granite that sparkled in the sunlight like an immense carven jewel, ... great Heaven! ... It was tottering to and fro like the unsteadied mast of a ship at sea! ... One look sufficed, and a frightful panic ensued a horrible, brutish stampede of creatures without faith in anything human or divine save their own wretched personalities, the King, infected by the general scare, urged his horses into furious gallop, and dashed through the cursing, swearing, howling throng like an embodied whirlwind, and for a few seconds nothing seemed distinctly visible But a surging mass of infuriated humanity, fighting with itself for life.
The irritation roused by those preposterous figures and accusations was somewhat allayed. Hope was relit in darkened countenances. "The inefficiency of a dozen tottering households is not removed by combining them," said Diantha. This was of dubious import.
"Kate!" called Joe Cumberland. "Are you mad, girl, to dream of goin' out in a night like this?" "I'm not going!" she answered hurriedly. "I'm afraid and I won't leave you, Dad!" She had stopped as she spoke, but Black Bart, snarling terribly, threw his weight back, and dragged her a step forward. "Buck," cried old Joe Cumberland and he dragged himself up and stood tottering.
Presently he had come quite close to her, and as he was helped towards her with tottering steps, he dug the dealer in the ribs and said, kissing the back of his hand, and winking his great eyes: "I know I know! It is not easily forgotten. Ivory and red coral!"
Hence his average or typical opponent tends to be progressively younger and younger than he is, and in the end the mere advantage of her youth may be sufficient to tip over his tottering defences. This, I take it, is why oldish men are so often intrigued by girls in their teens.
Philip is reviled as a murderer and a traitor, without considering that he was a true-born prince gallantly fighting at the head of his subjects to avenge the wrongs of his family, to retrieve the tottering power of his line, and to deliver his native land from the oppression of usurping strangers.
Poetry, however, clings with cherishing fondness about the rural game and holiday revel, from which it has derived so many of its themes, as the ivy winds its rich foliage about the Gothic arch and mouldering tower, gratefully repaying their support by clasping together their tottering remains, and, as it were, embalming them in verdure.
But there are those in our days, who reject this doctrine that you lay down, concerning the Lord Jesus Christ, as you lay it down, and they are for a Christ within, for a cross within, for a resurrection, and intercession within; and they do not hold as you do, a Christ without, and a resurrection of Christ without; and intercession of Christ without; Ay, and they have very much scripture for that which they say too: And therefore what shall such as we do, that stand tottering and shaking in these distracted and dangerous times?
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