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Updated: May 29, 2025
It is rather the fact that as the two hundred battle-stained and earth-stained troopers galloped forward, racing to be the first, and rising in their stirrups to cheer, the men in the hospital camps said, "Well, they're come at last, have they?" and continued fussing over their fourth of a ration of tea.
But his voice, his intonations, and his whimsical idea about Molly fitted in with the conception of an "impossible" as little as with the actual visible facts of his ragged shirt-sleeves and faded, earth-stained overalls. They toiled upwards in silence for some moments, the man still chewing on his birch-twig. He noticed her sidelong half-satirical glance at it.
Beauvayse descended abruptly from an empyrean flight of poetic imagery to remember his torn and soiled silk polo-shirt with its rolled-up sleeves, his earth-stained cords, girt with a belt of vari-coloured webbing, his muddy leather leggings and boots with their caked and dusty spurs, telling of hard service and unresting activity.
"Do you see this stick?" asked Adrian, holding up his walking-stick. "What about it?" asked Anthony. "I 'm coming to that," said Adrian. "But first you must truthfully answer a question. Which end of this stick would you prefer to be the bright silver handle or the earth-stained ferrule?" "Don't know," said Anthony, with an air of weariness. "Don't you?" marvelled Adrian. "How funny.
"I doubt it; it would be more likely to pauperize the whole nation." Here Charlie and Cis, with earth-stained knees and hands the latter full of violets reluctantly descended. Adding these to the basket already overflowing, they had a short wrangle as to who should carry it, and then Katherine turned her steps homeward.
"Are you sure you are not hurt at all?" he asked solicitously. "Not a bit only muddy," she replied, stooping to brush her earth-stained hands through the rain-laden grass at the roadside. He was still working with the straps when her hands were cleaned and watched her openly as she shielded her face behind Patsie's head while waiting.
The mother and wife felt herself shy, intimidated. The tears came back to her brown eyes. When Miss Boyce had gone, Minta Hurd went to the fire and put it together, sighing all the time, her face still red and miserable. The door opened and her husband came in. He carried some potatoes in his great earth-stained hands. "You're goin' to put that bit of hare on?
Outside against the wall on the right of the shutterless door was a shelf holding a battered tin water pail and a gourd. Within, as the visitors approached nearer, was heard the grinding of feet on the rough planks of the floor and the faint, tremulous cry of a child. A lank young man appeared at the door. He wore a ragged, earth-stained shirt and patched pants.
She was not immediately perceived; the head of the cripple had a three-cornered handkerchief thrown over it to defend it from the sun and she was earnestly grubbing at the roots of her balsam; the earth-stained fingers and the old brown stuff dress, which was of course dragged along in the dirt too, made a sad contrast with the spotless freshness of the little motionless figure that was at her side, almost touching her.
That such a power might extend over the dead that is, over certain thoughts and memories that the dead may still retain and compel, not that which ought properly to be called the SOUL, and which is for beyond human reach, but rather a phantom of what has been most earth-stained on earth, to make itself apparent to our senses is a very ancient though obsolete theory, upon which I will hazard no opinion.
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