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Updated: June 28, 2025
I turned and smiled into his face, happy in greeting him, losing the trepidation my rags gave me. "Why, Johnnie Gregory!" he shook my hand warmly as if I were a prince. I was enchanted. "I want to exchange two books if I can for others!" "Come right into the back. Breasted, the boss, is out for the day.... I'm having my lunch sent in, won't you have some with me?"
Then, emerging from the woods, she breasted the steep incline that led to the brow of the cliff. A big boulder, half overgrown with moss and lichen, offered a tempting resting-place, and flinging herself down on the yielding turf beside it, she leaned back and drew out Elisabeth's letter.
I cannot match the dignity of them. Where yellow sands invite, these do not even stoop to challenge. They are superb, demigods, the Royalty of the coast. As I breasted the summit, I heard a child's voice reading aloud. "And the people told him of all the splendid things which were in the city, and about the King, and what a pretty Princess the King's daughter was."
The rider turned him and faced back toward the group, coming at a stiff gallop. Soon Wildfire breasted the slope, and halted, snorting, shaking before the men. The lasso was still trailing out behind, limp and sagging. There was no weight upon it now. Bostil strode slowly ahead.
And thus if we have breasted the strange current of life, or even if we have been ourselves overpowered and swept away by it, let us try, in whatever region we have the power, to let that experience have some value for ourselves and others. If we can say it or write it, so much the better.
After this he once more breasted the cold winds, worse now because of the night, and continued to breast them until he found himself back in the stable. Thus he had his wish. But it was really more than he had wanted, and thereafter he was content to remain in peace and rest in the stable. But he was not always confined to the stable now.
Back to his cabin once more, weak as a swimmer who had breasted a strong tide. He opened his trunk and rammed the chamois-bag into the toe of one of his patent-leather boots. In the daytime he would wear it about his neck, but each night back into the shoe it must go. He flung himself on the bunk, not to sleep, but to think and wonder. Meantime there was great excitement in the dive.
We come sight-seeing. It's romantic. It's picturesque. We stare at the natives like visitors at a Zoo. We don't realize that we belong.... I know our style.... But we aren't all like that. Some of us are learning a bit better than that. We have one or two teachers over there to lighten our darkness. There's Professor Breasted for instance. He comes sometimes to my father's house.
The mesa was not a flat or level country, for they were still near to the mountain ranges. The way was up hill and down, in gentle slopes, and soon after starting they breasted the brow of a hill and were confronted by half a dozen mounted men, who seemed as much astonished at the encounter as they were.
But it was not until half an hour later, when we breasted the crest of the great hog-back that stretched before us like a rampart, that we ourselves met the wind. It came out of the west, athwart the sun's rays, a steady rush of warm air; and with it came the tang of the sea and hint of honey and new-mown hay that somehow clings to Devon moorland through all the changing seasons.
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