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Updated: June 13, 2025
Because a man would live according to the laws of his being as well as of his body, obeying simple, imperative, essential human necessity, his fellows forsooth call him UNPRACTICAL! Of the idiotic delusions of the children of this world, that of being practical is one of the most ludicrous. Here is a translation, made by Ian, of one of Alister's Gaelic songs.
Several Chinamen were already busy among the ruins of the burnt houses, as we saw, and it was Chinese labour that Alister's friend had resolved to employ; but he seemed to think that, though industrious, those smiling, smooth-faced individuals, who looked as if they had come to life off one of my mother's old tea-cups, were not to be trusted alone among the salvage.
It opened before her like an incredible exquisite happiness that perhaps he need never know her sin. She put her hand into Alister's and accepted him in a passion of sobbing that was half joy, half sorrow. The brothers were all in favour of the marriage. They loved her too much not to want her to have a fair chance in a new life.
When the small operations were over, and Alister was in bed, she would have gone to let Mercy know all she could tell her. But she must not: it would work mischief in the house! She sat down by Alister's bedside, and watched him all night.
Not a few of the clan, removed elsewhither, would have smiled degenerate, and with scorn in their amusement, at the idea of Alister's clinging to any supposed reality in the position he could claim. Among such nevertheless were several who, having made money by trade, would each have been glad enough to keep up old traditions, and been ready even to revive older, had the headship fallen to him.
And at that moment the moon shone out once more, and showed me a sight that I'll forget when I forget you Dennis O'Moore! It was a lad that they had saved, not a full-grown man, except in the sense of his height, which was nearly an inch beyond Alister's.
"You'd make your fortune in a music-hall, sir." "Thank ye, bo'sun. Glad I didn't give ye your revenge, anyhow." But the boatswain meant to strike nearer home. A ship's favourite might have hesitated to sing after Dennis, so Alister's feelings may be guessed on hearing the following speech: "Mr. O'Moore, and comrades all. "But we've been out-o'-way favoured as I may say, this voyage.
Alister's light was thus left to burn in very darkness, that it might burn the better; for as strength is made perfect through weakness, so does the light, within grow by darkness. It was the people that sat in darkness that saw a great light.
Keep it up, and you'll do." Alister's sentence had been left unfinished, but I learnt the rest of it by experience. We scrambled down after Francis till we seemed to be about the level where we had stowed away. However, Francis got them and banged us well with them before giving them to us to carry.
"Donal was only in fun!" he said, as soon as Alister's anger had spent itself. "Father would never have punished him like that!" Alister was ashamed, and never again was guilty of such an outbreak. From that moment he began the serious endeavour to subjugate the pig, tiger, mule, or whatever animal he found in himself.
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