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The strip of brown clods, which was two or three yards in width, seemed an adequate defense, and after a glance at it the corporal nodded his satisfaction. "Good enough," he said. "We'll take the trail." He trotted away with his companion and it was evening when they rode along the edge of a ravine which pierced a high tract of rolling country.
And the Doones were of very high birth, as all we clods of Exmoor knew; and we had enough of good teaching now let any man say the contrary to feel that all we had belonged of right to those above us. Therefore my mother was half-ashamed that she could not help complaining.
Over this we stumbled, and here the rays of the lantern were directed far in advance of us, so as to sweep slowly round, bringing bushes, and grassy tufts, and stumps, and clods, into spectral view for a moment as the focus of light moved on.
The German sees a danger to his hardly won national life in the cosmopolitanism of the Jew; he sees a danger to his duty-doing, simple-living, and hard-working governing aristocracy in the tempting luxury of the recently rich Jew; and besides these objective reasons, he is instinctively antagonistic, as though he were born of the clouds of heaven and the Jew of the clods of earth.
"Well," said he at length, "I think it is something of very equivocal utility. Why should such gentle hands and feet spend their strength in clod-breaking, when rough ones are at command?" There was nothing equivocal about Fleda's merriment this time. "I have learned, Mr. Thorn, by sad experience, that the rough hands break more than the clods.
He began by saying that he wished to dissociate his text in his hearers' minds from the scent of the upturned earth, and the fall of clods upon the coffin lid, and he asked them to join him in attempting to find in it another meaning beside that which it usually carried.
Beside the pools, the puddlers chopped with their shovels; some even stood in the tubs, and worked the earth with their feet, as wine-pressers trample grapes. The cradlers, eternally rocking with one hand, held a long stick in the other with which to break up any clods a careless puddler might have deposited in the hopper.
He rode on further over the wide world, the black horse galloping and galloping under the tall trees, and throwing clods of earth from his thundering hoofs. He came among the mountains. And there was a roaring and a crashing in the mountains as if the earth was falling to pieces.
The least interference kills it. The beauty of English woodland and country is in its detail. There is nothing empty and unclothed. If the clods are left a little while undisturbed in the fields, weeds spring up and wild-flowers bloom upon them. Is the hedge cut and trimmed, lo! the bluebells flower the more and a yet fresher green buds forth upon the twigs.
The imagination of such a sentiment for it is a sentiment that does not live save in the imagination may serve to draw peasants and other low-bred clods into wedlock. With such as we with gentlemen it has naught to do. So let that be, Monsieur. Andrea de Mancini came hither to wed my daughter." "And I am certain, Monsieur," I answered stoutly, "that Andrea will wed your daughter."
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