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"Why didn't you fetch him?" Peter broke in. "I come in jest after he'd gone out, an' " "Found this?" Peter indicated Eve. "Yes." Jim suddenly looked up, and his fierce eyes encountered Peter's. The latter's tone promptly changed. "How is she?" he asked gently, and it was evident he was trying to banish the thoughts which Elia's statement had stirred in Jim's mind.
Here the Opium-Eater came, and his cloudy abstract loves and hates and visions were exploded by the sparks of Elia's wit. Here the philosopher Godwin developed philosophy out of whist. Here the pensive face of the Quaker poet, Bernard Barton, shed a mild light upon the scene; and here the lawyer Thomas Noon Talfourd came to admire the finest characters that he knew of.
He had taken the lead in this visit; he felt it was necessary. Jim Thorpe's frame of mind was not to be trusted, should they encounter Henderson. He knocked at the door, reassured that Eve was within by the light in her parlor window. At first he received no reply, and in silence the two men waited. Then Peter knocked again. This time Elia's voice was heard answering his summons. "Come in."
The boy's teeth had left an ugly wound, and the blood was flowing freely. He turned his eyes again to Elia's face and a devil lurked in them. "I've a good mind to thrash you, you piece of deformity!" he cried angrily. And he made a move as though to fulfil his threat. Then that cruel grin gathered round his lips again. "That's a good idea," he said.
Eve looked up, startled. Every nerve in her body was quivering with a sudden tension. "Yes, yes?" she cried. "Yes, it's sure over," the boy added, prolonging his sister's agony. "Well? They they acquitted him?" There was something absolutely imploring in her manner. It might well have moved a heart of stone. But Elia's heart, if he possessed such an organ, bore the brand of the fiend.
As for slavery, I cannot see how it could ever have aided in establishing freedom, and freedom, the synonym of equality is, from the very rudest state in which man can be imagined, the stimulus and condition of progress. Auguste Comte's idea that the institution of slavery destroyed cannibalism is as fanciful as Elia's humorous notion of the way mankind acquired a taste for roast pig.
Has he not even put Cowley flat down upon his face, as if, already neglected, he had slipped from the lad's negligent fingers as if, indeed, Elia's far-striding meditation were to him of higher interest than the stiff measure of any poet? I recall a child, dimly through the years, that lay upon the rug before the fire to read his book, with his chin resting on both his hands.
He used to pay weekly visits to Gay's slaughter yard on killing day, and reveled in the cruel task of skinning and cutting up the carcase of the slaughtered beast. If a fight between two men occurred in the village Elia's instinct led him unerringly to it.
But the room was empty, and yet it had been Elia's voice that summoned them to enter. With only the briefest hesitation Peter started toward the kitchen door, and Jim, his thoughts running riot over the past, mechanically followed him. And as they reached it, and Peter's great bulk filled up the opening, it was the latter's sharp exclamation that brought Jim to matters of the moment.
All through that delightful day, as I roamed through the fine old halls, I would encounter him passing by, still in his lofty dream, still controlling all, with a weight of delegated authority on his broad shoulders. Only at the very close did he vouchsafe a few dignified, encouraging words, and then passed on. He reminded me much of Elia's description of Bensley's Malvolio.
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