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I was warned, at the same time, not to come near the house, for fear that her father or some of her brothers would kill me. The next day I left Harmony and walked to Port Jarvis, on the Erie Railroad, N. Y., arriving late at night, and entirely footsore, sick, and disheartened. I went to the hotel, and the next morning I found myself seriously sick.
I looked at my watch, and found that it was already five o'clock. In an hour it would be dark, the beginning of the long northern night. Elma, who was weary and footsore, asked by signs to be permitted to lay down and rest. Therefore we gathered a bed of dried leaves for her, and she lay down, and while we watched she was soon asleep.
Often a sheep dog or a puppy drops down in the same way, footsore and worn out; then the shepherds do not tarry, but leave the creatures to their fate, to die slowly of thirst and hunger. The good shepherd is a false phrase. No one is more brutal than a shepherd. If he were not so he could not bear his life for a day. All that he does is brutal.
Sister did not speak French or German, but she was very good and did not lose her head, or give us away by speaking English to me. And at last it seemed hours to us we got safely past the last sentry. Footsore and weary, but very thankful, we trudged back to Brussels.
Only a few weeks before, gaunt, footsore, and ragged, tramping the cross-ties yonder where the railway comes from the eastward, curving into view out of that deep green and gray defile, 'Thanase had come into this valley. So short a time before, because almost on his start homeward illness had halted him by the way and held him long in arrest.
Oh, how far ahead he seems, in his hope for the creation, of the footsore and halting brigade of Christians at present crossing the world! He knew Christ, and could therefore look into the will of the Father. For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God!
Footsore, hungry most of the time, alternately burned and frozen, he lived the life cheerfully and tirelessly, with an enthusiasm that never faltered. When his day came it brought no surprise, so freshly certain had he kept of its coming through the twenty years of search. At his feet, one July morning in 1870, he noticed a piece of dark-stained rock in a mass of driftstones.
Like most men who ride I had very sketchy ideas of what three miles afoot is like at night in high heels. The latter affliction was common to both Miss Emory and myself. She had on a sort of bedroom slipper, and I wore the usual cowboy boots. We began to go footsore about the same time, and the little rolling volcanic rocks among the bunches of sacatone did not help us a bit.
So there sat Brother Thomas at the cross-roads, footsore, hungry, and sullen, in the midst of us, who dared not speak, he twanging at the string of his arbalest. He called himself our Moses, in his blasphemous way, and the blind man having girded at him for not leading us into the land of plenty, he had struck the man till he bled, and now stood stanching his wound.
'The fairy's tall palm-tree, the heath bird's fresh nest, And the couch the red deer deems the sweetest and best. Carrantual rears its crested head high above the other mountains, and on its summit Shon the Outlaw, footsore, weary, slept; sighing, "For once, thank God, I am above all my enemies."
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