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They who strive to save their fellows, they who go down into the depths that they may lift men up, see so much of the darkened under-side of human life, they are brought so close up to the ugly facts of human baseness, human trickery, human ingratitude, that, unless there be behind them the staying, steadying power of the faith and love of Christ, they cannot long endure the strain; they grow weary in well-doing, perchance even they grow bitter and contemptuous, and in a little while the tasks they have taken up fall unfinished from their hands.
J.E. must have walked many hundreds of miles among my hops with the horses drawing "the mistifier," a syringing machine which pumped a mist-like spray of soft soap and quassia solution upon the under-side of the hop-leaves, when attacked by the aphis blight; and he must have destroyed many millions of aphides, for the blight was an annual occurrence at Aldington, and taxed our energies to the utmost at one of the busiest times of year.
The roof, its regular construction finished, was covered with small spruce poles with the bark on, nailed together at the apex, and where it projected well beyond the gables its under-side was covered with bark, as well as the cornice all round that finished it off. Even the window-frames and the door-panels were covered with bark.
Torpenhow? she inquired at last. 'He has gone away to the desert. 'Where's that? Dick pointed to the right. 'East out of the mouth of the river, said he. 'Then west, then south, and then east again, all along the under-side of Europe.
Indeed, the missionaries, in their various religious ceremonies, or "mummeries," as they might be better styled, have always made large use of these palm-candles. In this one, the wax of a pure white colour, and without any admixture of resin collects upon the under-side of the leaves, and can he had in large quantities by merely stripping it off.
That was right, at all events, only, as it was to be reversed, he laid it on the paper with the under-side up.
"I wonder whether one oftener learns to love real objects through their representations, or the representations through the real objects," he said, after pointing out a lovely capital made by the curled leaves of greens, showing their reticulated under-side with the firm gradual swell of its central rib.
If he had been told that he was watching her, he would have denied it in good faith; but he was bound to watch her, to find out with what eyes she viewed this visitor who embodied all the rebellious under-side of life, all that was absent in herself. "Dick," she said to him one day, "you never talk to me of Monsieur Ferrand." "Do you want to talk of him?" "Don't you think that he's improved?"
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