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It was a selfish act to do, and he and his fellow-villagers paid dearly for it. Three days after he had entered his house he and all his family lay dead, and the plague was raging through the valley, and nothing seemed able to stay its course. "When human means fail, we feel it is only fair to give Heaven a chance.
"Thanks for the drink which I thirsty one received," said the ghost. "Thus I was wont to drink when I lived on earth." And then it went out. Now the boy heard his fellow-villagers coming up and gathering outside the house, and then they began to crawl in through the passage way. "Qalagánguasê is not here," they said, when they came inside. "Yes, he is," said the boy.
"Do you know that he has given me his word, and before his fellow-villagers, that if he had the worst of the fight he would never molest Jessie Wiles again?" "Yes, he told me so himself; and it is that which weighs on him now. He broods and broods and mutters, and will not be comforted; and and I do fear that he means revenge. And again, I implore you to keep out of his way."
I could not see but they were as well off as I; they were much more gayly dressed, and some of them were even smoking cigars, while they were nearly all younger by ten, twenty, forty, or fifty years, and even more. They did not look like the country people whom I rather hoped and expected to see, but were apparently my fellow-villagers, in different stages of excitement.
Cowper, destined to fill so large a space in the public eye somewhat later, had not as yet appeared as an author; and as for Burns, he was still unknown beyond the obscure circle of his fellow-villagers." All this is quite true, but it was not for such facile cleverness as The Candidate that the lovers of poetry were impatient.
I could not see but they were as well off as I; they were much more gayly dressed, and some of them were even smoking cigars, while they were nearly all younger by ten, twenty, forty, or fifty years, and even more. They did not look like the country people whom I rather hoped and expected to see, but were apparently my fellow-villagers, in different stages of excitement.
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