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And he knew where it was going north, and still farther north; a hundred miles, five hundred, a thousand and then another thousand before the last of the scows unburdened itself of its precious freight. For the lean and brown-visaged men who went with them there would be many months of clean living and joyous thrill under the open skies.
I met occasional wayfarers; once two women in a cart, decent, brown-visaged, country matrons, and then an apparent doctor, of whom there are seven or thereabouts in North Adams; for though this vicinity is very healthy, yet the physicians are obliged to ride considerable distances among the mountain towns, and their practice is very laborious.
Pale, jaundiced, and crumpled, they have all the sea-sick look and haggard cheek of the real martyr all except one, a stout, swarthy, brown-visaged man, of about forty, with a frame of iron, and a voice like the fourth string of a violincello.
At a short distance from my bed was another similarly composed couch, occupied by a man muffled up in blankets, and having his back turned towards me, so that I was unable to obtain a view of his features. "What is all this? Where am I? Where is Rowley our guide where are they all?" "Non entiendo," answered my brown-visaged Ganymede, shaking his head, and with a good-humoured smile.
And he knew where it was going north, and still farther north; a hundred miles, five hundred, a thousand and then another thousand before the last of the scows unburdened itself of its precious freight. For the lean and brown-visaged men who went with them there would be many months of clean living and joyous thrill under the open skies.
"Were you ever in a theatre, Duncan?" he said, or rather bawled, to the brown-visaged and black-haired young fellow who had now got the sheet of the lugsail under his foot as well as in the firm grip of his hands. "Oh yes, Sir Keith," said he, as he shook the salt-water away from his short beard. "It was at Greenock. I will be at the theatre, and more than three times or two times."
Pale, jaundiced, and crumpled, they have all the sea-sick look and haggard cheek of the real martyr all except one, a stout, swarthy, brown-visaged man, of about forty, with a frame of iron, and a voice like the fourth string of a violincello.
One of the company was a negro. The only woman there was a big-bosomed, brown-visaged, black-eyed, savage looking creature not destitute of wild charm. If long hair be a glory to woman, then was this dark female covered with glory her glossy mane fell far down over her shoulders and back.
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