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Updated: May 26, 2025
It was plainly visible from the river, a wide black gash in the almost perpendicular wall that reached well above the fringe of trees and underbrush along the steep bank of the stream. He tried to picture Quill as he sat in his strange abode, a hundred years ago, cowering over the fire or reading perhaps by the light of a huge old-fashioned lanthorn.
As he grew older, he began to feel the necessity of some provision for his later years, and came gradually to the conviction that rum had been his worst enemy. One night, in Havana, a young shipmate of his was brought aboard drunk, with a dangerous gash in his head, and his money and new clothes stripped from him.
I have to send in completed notes not later than this day week, and it will be quite impossible. I am dreadfully disappointed." By this time I had unwound the voluminous wrappings and exposed the injury a deep gash in the palm that must have narrowly missed a good-sized artery. Obviously the hand would be useless for fully a week.
Just then little Jack came up with face as pallid as Nannie's, and though panting for want of breath managed to say: "Dad struck mother with the trowel! and cut an awful gash in her head! and her face is all covered with blood and I think she is dead."
She got out the words as he bade her, but when 't came to the stroke, what with her natural fright, and what with the sunlight on the silver, she brought down the heavy blade edgewise on the boy's pate, laying wide quite a gash above his left eyebrow, so that the blood trickled down his cheek.
That was the last that any one saw of the man until, about ten o'clock, some one going home past the mill office heard a man groaning at the foot of a new excavation at the end of the building, and climbing down discovered the man who had been to see Mr. Winter twice that afternoon. He had a terrible gash in his head, and lived only a few minutes after he was discovered.
But blame or anger, how small they were in the face of this common gash this hurt! She shut a door in her brain, the one which led into that chamber where all lovely things bloomed among the horrors. And Zebedee, as she had always told him, was just herself: they shared. "Oh, you've done that? How wonderful! But it's like running away." "I don't want you here."
Yet if he went wrong, he was always, sure to make mischief, and though innocent, to be held accountable for others' mistakes. "Every prick I make," said he, "is made a gash; and to follow the words of my directions from England is not enough, except I likewise see into your minds. And surely mine eyesight is not so good. But I will pray to God for his help herein.
All of it lies there before him, his victories and his defeats, his millions come, and his millions going going? yes, all but gone. Yonder that deep gash in the sod at the left hides a woman's face pale, wasted, dead on her pillow; and that clean black streak on the ebony cane that is a tear, and in the tear is a girl's face and back of hers shimmers a boy's countenance.
On the contrary, behold: you see no blood crimsoning the edges of the horrid gash in your panoply of self-esteem: you but smart and scratch the scratches, forgetting your wound in the hot itch for vengeance. You ran, last night. You ran of course you ran. Why not? You ran to fight another day! A bank clerk sometimes has opportunities.
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