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Updated: May 19, 2025
With the waning enthusiasm of achievement, from his point of vantage of abandonment, he was trying to see beyond this confident hour see into the plain common days when a sense of self would control him, tempt him, lure, and perhaps, betray him. What then? The realization of Joyce Birkdale's womanhood a time back had shaken him almost as much as it had the girl herself.
"Say," Murphy continued, "give it straight, Filmer; does it be after meanin' life or death for Birkdale's girl? What's the almighty hurry, anyway?" He leered unpleasantly. Jock squared himself, and faced the engineer. "Come off with that guff!" he drawled. "What hurry there be is my hurry, you blamed idiot! And my reasons are my own, confound you!
Jared Birkdale kept his distance and silence; and Joyce grew to forget him. The Black Cat flourished, and Jude made no attempt to curb his growing desire for popularity there. He was developing a talent for instructing his elders, and laying down the law. He was endeavoring to fill Birkdale's place. Jared had always been the tavern orator.
He had come with a goodly stock of self-assertion and sudden-gained dignity, but they withered under the inquiring gaze. "You've come from Joyce Birkdale's? I congratulate you, Jude." So he knew that too! Jude felt a superstitious aversion to this man he had but recently begun to have any feeling toward whatever outside the ordinary give and take of village life.
He watched Jude until he was lost in the shadows, then he drew the heavy wooden shutters close, bolted the door and placed his pistol near at hand. All the next day Jude haunted the vicinity of Joyce Birkdale's home, but he kept hidden, for Joyce was safe within doors and a drizzly rain was falling.
Then he went away to find Jude to get Jude to set me free and we were going to be " the words trailed into a faint moan. "But I see, I see! Even if it had come out right I'd always be, for all his goodness, old Jared Birkdale's daughter, and Jude Lauzoon's wife. That, he would have to bear and suffer for me and his world would never forgive him nor me! "No; I do love him too well for that.
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