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Pedro was soaking with sweat, and red froth creamed from his mouth. The Virginian saw the horses must have been hard to drive in, especially after Balaam brought them the wild sorrel as a leader. "If you'd kep' ridin' him, 'stead of changin' off on your hawss, they'd have behaved quieter," said the foreman. "That's good seasonable advice," said Balaam, sarcastically.
Whin Raines comes out he'll be changin' his kit at the jail now he'll think that too. He shud ha' shot himself an' the woman by rights, an' made a clean bill av all. Now he's left the woman she tuk tay wid Dinah Sunday gone last an' he's left himself. Mackie's the lucky man." "He's probably getting it hot where he is," I ventured, for I knew something of the dead Corporal's record.
The jogging horses left behind their lazy feet a suffocating cloud. "My land!" cried Mrs. Pike, "if that ain't goldenrod! I do b'lieve it comes earlier every year, or else the seasons are changin'. See them elderberries! Ain't they purple! You jest remember that bush, an' when we go back, we'll fill some pails. I dunno when I've made elderberry wine."
His flight had made many uneasy, but his return, for that reason, brought a stancher fealty from these; and this was evident now. All eyes were upon him, and all tongues, even old Sam's, waited now for his to speak. "Whut we've got to do, we've got to do mighty quick," he began, at last. "Things air changin'. I seed it over thar in Breathitt.
Broad beams of crimson, gold and azure changin' every minute fell on the cascades, the flowers gleamed out from the emerald grass like jewels of every color. Music riz softly from the lagoon, the great organ pealed out in triumphant notes, and my heart boyed up on waves of beauty and melody follered the strains heavenward as if it didn't ever want to come back agin to earth and Jonesville.
Then Davy went to inspect his lamp. "But to us He gives the keepin' Of the lights along the shore!" Janet smiled as the cheerful words floated back to her. Presently David returned. "Everythin' is as it should be," he chuckled; "clear night, but changin' breeze, an' the Light doin' its proper duty! Janet, while I slept, I had the durndest dream, I can't get rid of it.
They didn't buy their experience dear, like we did; didn't guess that if a man DON'T learn to fit himself in, when he gets set down in such a land as this, he's a goner; any more'n they knew that most o' those who hold out here all of 'em at any rate who've climbed the ladder, nabbed the plunder have found no more difficulty in changin' their spots than they have their trousers.
She saw his look of unbelief and continued hurriedly. "Oh, I tried not to be. I tried so hard. He used to read me verses out of a Bible about my way being his way and my people his people, but it isn't so, Jim. Your way is the way you are born, and your people are the people you are born with, and you can't change it, Jim, no matter how hard you try." "YOU was changin' it," he answered, savagely.
Besides, I reckon 't wouldn't make no difference, for a man that'll go to a pawn-shop for a weddin'-ring ain't one to make a row about his wife's changin' it. When I spoke sharp to him about it, he snickered, an' said it was appropriate enough, though to this day I've never figured out precisely just what the old serpent meant by it.
And he wus jest a askin' me this, and it beats all, how many times he had tackled me on this very subject, when Whitfield drove up in a great hurry. Little Samantha Joe had been taken sick, very sick, and extremely sudden. Scarlet-fever was round, and she and the boy had both been exposed. I was all excitement and agitation; and I hurried off without changin' my dress, or any thing.
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