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This was alarming, but they reckoned that they had fully five hundred yards start. “Keep up a steady pace,” Will said; “I don’t expect the beggars can run faster than we can. It will be pitch dark in half an hour, and as, fortunately, there is no moon, I expect we’ll be able to give them the slip.” As they advanced they found that the vegetation became scarcer and scarcer.
The lamps were extinguished, yet the shutters of the shops and dwelling-houses were not opened. All sounds had an echo unheard by day. One or two houseless beggars sat on doorsteps, and, shivering, slept, with heads bowed on their knees, or resting against the cold hard support afforded by the wall. Ruth felt as if a dream had melted away, and she were once more in the actual world.
"And just in the middle of it we found that these men had surrounded us." "Yes, yes, yes; don't make such a fuss about it, Master Rayburn," cried Mark hastily. "And then we had to join and whip the beggars, and we did whip 'em at last; and my leg hurts horribly, and you stand there talking, instead of coming home to doctor it."
She was on her way for a final visit to her ward the visit she had told Bridget she would make to see if the promise had been kept when a line from Hauptman's faery play flashed through her mind: "At dawn we are kings; at night we are only beggars." How true it was of her this day. How beggared she felt!
THAHN Now we shall see the faces of the girls when they come to the banquet. MLAN Never had beggars such a time. AGMAR Hark! They are coming. I hear footsteps. THAHN The dancing girls. They are coming. THIEF There is no sound of flutes; they said they would come with music. OOGNO What heavy boots they have, they sound like feet of stone.
"Where are the greater part of the Temecula people now?" "Like this, Senor," with a bitter gesture, pointing to his wife. "Most of us are beggars. A few here, a few there. Some have gone to Capitan Grande, some way down into Lower California." Wearily Felipe continued his bootless questioning. No suspicion that the man was deceiving him crossed his mind.
The street preaching employed by the Serampore community had not been resorted to by the Church Missionary Society, and Bishop Heber decided that in the fanatic population, amid the crowds of bulls, beggars, and sacred apes, it was far wiser not to attempt it; but the missionaries were often sent for to private houses to converse with natives of rank, on their doctrine.
"Aye," said the Scotch driver who had told us about the woman and her child, "and a French battery coming up behind us, the horse kicked one shell that we dropped, and I'm damned if it did na' explode and blaw the puir beggars to the deil. By the Lord! They're doing gude work!" Good work, indeed, Fritz, but your day is coming!
Thus passed away one of South Carolina's brightest jewels. From Cold Harbor to Petersburg. The field in the front at Cold Harbor where those deadly assaults had been made beggars description. Men lay in places like hogs in a pen some side by side, across each other, some two deep, while others with their legs lying across the head and body of their dead comrades.
Hunston is just a dingy little microcosm of the whole United States of America. You can't blame these poor beggars here much, afraid of their jobs as they are. It takes courage to make a break for virtue when the devil's holding you by your bread and meat. But well, I'd hate like the mischief to lose, particularly since we've managed to come in for such a beautiful lot of lime-light.
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