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By this time Owen had drawn a circle about two feet in diameter. Inside he had drawn two squares, one much larger than the other. These two squares he filled in solid black with the charcoal. 'Wot's it all about? asked Crass with a sneer. 'Why, can't you see? said Philpot with a wink.
He was banded and strapped all over, like a mummy, and he lay gnashing his teeth and foaming with fury. Raoul and the Irishman appeared to take things more easily, or rather more recklessly. "I wonder if they are going to hang us to-night, or keep us till morning? What do you think, Chane?" asked the Frenchman, laughing as he spoke. "Be the crass! they'll lose no time ye may depind on that same.
Although Owen, Easton and Crass and a few others were so lucky as to have had a little work to do during the last few months, the majority of their fellow workmen had been altogether out of employment most of the time, and meanwhile the practical business-men, and the pretended disciples of Christ the liars and hypocrites who professed to believe that all men are brothers and God their Father had continued to enact the usual farce that they called 'Dealing' with the misery that surrounded them on every side.
The somber history of the Kosnovian monarchy, a record of crass stupidity made lurid at times by a lightning gleam of passion, justified the belief that Alexis would follow the path that led Theodore, and Ferdinand, and Ivan, and Milosch to their ruin.
When one remembers that the balance and motion of the planets are so delicate that the momentary scowl of an eclipse may fill the heavens with tempest, and even affect the very bowels of the earth when we see a balloon, that carries perhaps a thousand pounds, leap up a hundred feet at the discharge of a sheet of note paper or feel it stand deathly still in a hurricane, because it goes with the hurricane, sides with it, and ignores the rushing world below we should realize that one tittle of pure originality would outweigh this crass objective, and turn these vast masses into mere breath and tissue-paper show."
But I did not come to Scotland to vindicate the honour of one of the greatest men she has ever produced. My business is to point out to you that the only way of escape out of the crass materialism in which we just now landed, is the adoption and strict working-out of the very principles which the Archbishop holds up to reprobation.
'An' tell me how many masses 'ill make you asy, an' by this crass, I'll buy you as many as you want, says she. 'I don't know what the divil you mane, says Jim. 'Go back, says she, 'go back to glory, for God's sake, says she. 'Divil's cure to the bit iv me 'ill go back to glory, or anywhere else, says he, 'this blessed night; so open the door at onst' an' let me in, says he.
'Oh, of course we're all bloody fools except you, snarled Crass. 'When they were servin' out the sense, they give you such a 'ell of a lot, there wasn't none left for nobody else. 'If there wasn't something wrong with your minds, continued Owen, 'you would be able to see that we might have "Plenty of Work" and yet be in a state of destitution.
As a rule Crass himself had no liking for such discussion, but he was so confident of being able to 'flatten out' Owen with the cutting from the Obscurer that he had several times tried to lead the conversation into the desired channel, but so far without success. During dinner as they called it various subjects were discussed.
'Before retiring to rest: a glass of warm milk. 'During the night: a glass of milk with a biscuit or bread and butter should be placed by the bedside and be eaten if the patient awakes. Whilst Owen was reading this book, Crass, Harlow, Philpot and Easton were talking together on the other side of the street, and presently Crass caught sight of him.
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