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But now the fire sank withal, and he leapt from his horse and went into the hall, even as the song says "The flame flared at its maddest, Earth's fields fell a-quaking As the red flame aloft Licked the lowest of heaven. Few had been fain, Of the rulers of folk, To ride through that flame, Or athwart it to tread.
The well-tarred sidewalks, the freshly painted meeting-house neighboring the engine-house "No. 1," the homes with their well-mowed lawns in front and the tidily kept yards behind all spoke of a decency and lawfulness that might easily have set the hearts of the most righteous of vagabonds a-quaking. Patsy looked it carefully over. "Sure, Arden's no name for it at all.
But it warn't no time to be sentimentering. We'd GOT to find that boat now had to have it for ourselves. So we went a-quaking and shaking down the stabboard side, and slow work it was, too seemed a week before we got to the stern. No sign of a boat. Jim said he didn't believe he could go any further so scared he hadn't hardly any strength left, he said.
And all the while the old man stood there a-quaking and his eyes a-burning, and not looking at his wife and daughter, which was clinging to him and begging him to keep still, but pawing them off with his hands and saying he WOULD clear his black soul from crime, he WOULD heave off this load that was more than he could bear, and he WOULDN'T bear it another hour!
Here is one runs a-quaking, another a-ranting; one again runs after the Baptism, and another after the Independency. Here is one for free-will, and another for Presbytery; and yet possibly most of all these sects run quite the wrong way, and yet every one is for his life, his soul, either for heaven or hell. If thou now say, Which is the way?
"It is too late," said she, "I have written her." We rode on, laughing. In spite of the serious character of her words, I fell a-quaking from crown to stirrup. I was now engaged to Louison, or as good as that, and, being a man of honor, I must think no more of her sister.
But it warn't no time to be sentimentering. We'd GOT to find that boat now had to have it for ourselves. So we went a-quaking and shaking down the stabboard side, and slow work it was, too seemed a week before we got to the stern. No sign of a boat. Jim said he didn't believe he could go any further so scared he hadn't hardly any strength left, he said.
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