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Conway said, taking off her hat and stepping out so that the light of the policeman's lantern fell upon her. "Please let me in, I have got it." "Good heavens!" Mr. Withers exclaimed, startled out of his usual tranquillity. "It is all right, constable, I will be down in a minute." "There, constable, you see I spoke truly," Mrs.
The scenes depicted of Paris and London, after the collapse of Mississippi schemes and South Sea bubbles, were here repeated on a greater scale and in more aggravated form. To most, the loss of wealth was loss of ancestry, repute, respectability, decency, recognition of their fellows all. Small wonder that their withers were fearfully wrung, and their wails piteous.
Withers then told the whole story of the loss of the will, the search that had been made for it, and the strong grounds there were for believing in the existence of some secret place in the Hall, and that this place of concealment was known to Mr. Penfold's sisters. "But they surely could never be so wicked as that, papa.
"Then o'er them as they wept, his hands he clasped, And 'Oh my children, said he, 'from this day Ye have no more a father all of me Withers away the burden and the toil Of mine old age fall on ye nevermore.
Henry Withers had pondered, and his mind was made up to do a certain thing. Towards evening he sat alone in the room where Macnamara lay asleep almost his very last sleep. All at once Macnamara's eyes opened wide. "Kitty, Kitty, me darlin'," he murmured vaguely. Then he saw Henry Withers. "I'm dyin'," he said, breathing heavily. "Don't call anny one, Hinry," he added brokenly.
But, like the Roman, he had endurance and he was undoubtedly easier to handle. There were the withers, the haunch, the hock, and a score of other features upon which Gard's new acquaintance held forth, introducing almost every remark with his rather embarrassed "excuse me." The astonishing Teuton erudition again! Gard had to marvel at it once more. This German was, by rare exception, ingratiating.
Enrique and I were after him without loss of time. Enrique made a successful cast for his horns, and reined in his horse; but when the slack of the rope was taken up the rear cinch broke, the saddle was jerked forward on the horse's withers, and Enrique was compelled to free the rope or have his horse dragged down.
Religion, deprived in Winesburg of poetry, fritters its time away over Pharisaic ordinances or evaporates in cloudy dreams; sex, deprived of spontaneity, settles into fleshly habit or tortures its victim with the malice of a thwarted devil; heroism of deed or thought either withers into melancholy inaction or else protects itself with a sullen or ridiculous bravado.
Finally they went away, taking Joe with them. Withers took up the task of getting supper where Joe had been made to leave it. "Shefford, listen," he said, presently, as he knelt before the fire. "I told them right out that you'd been a Gentile clergyman that you'd gone back on your religion. It impressed them and you've been well received. I'll tell the same thing over at Stonebridge.
But not Withers, oh, of course not Withers! for was it not well known that Adelaide was his choice, that his assiduous and graceful attentions to her silenced even his loudest enemies, who could no longer accuse him of duplicity and disloyalty to women? But she would feel less disturbed, and sleep better, perhaps, if she knew that Madeline was safe at home, and tranquil again."
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