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For a moment I was dazed and my ears sang. Then I looked up the black mass was thinning and collapsing. The cow had disappeared. I walked into the yard full of rage and bitterness. All the men had left the sheds and were flocking into the road.
When order had been restored a cry of horror and dismay burst from the multitude the judge's head lay flattened upon the floor, a dozen feet below the bench, and from the neck of the rapidly collapsing body, which had pitched forward upon his desk, poured a thick stream of sawdust! For thirty years that great and good man had been represented by a stuffed manikin.
In almost all humid countries they are extraordinarily numerous, and for their size possess great muscular power. From the collapsing of the old burrows the mould is in constant though slow movement, and the particles composing it are thus rubbed together.
Froude, in the midst of this prosperity the heart of the empire was dying out of it; luxury and selfishness were eating away the principle that held society together, and the ancient world was on the point of collapsing into a heap of incoherent sand.
And no doubt because she had been too excitedly happy and was tired, and the time had come for some degree of reaction, her joy fell, withered like a child's collapsing pink balloon, when, contrasting the present with the past for the sake of seeing the things before her as more rarely full of wonder and charm, she saw those other things.
Then collapsing in the corner of the seat, she closed her eyes and sat so silent that Duvall began to wonder whether she had lost consciousness. The taxicab, meanwhile, had drawn up in front of a drug store on Sixth Avenue. Duvall took a look at the apparently unconscious woman, then spoke quickly to the chauffeur. "Stay here until I return," he said. "Don't go away under any circumstances.
Now she could see the spitting of lire as he plugged bullets and shrapnel into his astonished opponent. Scarcely did she breathe again before the Taube, its Death's Head Flag collapsing about its staff, was tumbling down, almost over them.
He dropped instantly, collapsing in on himself as falls a pole-axed bullock, and lay, unconscious, in a crumpled heap on the ground. For a little Dunn waited, crouching above him and listening for the least sound to show that their brief scuffle had been heard. But it had all passed nearly as silently as quickly.
Eight hundred yards away a ragged line of men were coming on desperately, struggling forward in the face of the pitiless fire white banners tossing and collapsing; white figures subsiding in dozens to the ground; little white puffs from their rifles, larger white puffs spreading in a row all along their front from the bursting shrapnel.
But, we may lawfully ask, will not this peace bring with it a special danger, against which we ought to take precautions? As a matter of fact, there is such a danger, and it lies in the fact that the people have been to so great an extent obsessed by the political struggle that they run the risk, once their end is attained, of collapsing and of losing interest in the national question.
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