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Updated: July 1, 2025
But 'ere you are, bright as a cherry, an' 'ere is Dickey an' meself come to fetch you. Dash my wig, there's life in the old dogs yet, or we'd never ha' bin able to ride forty mile through this God-forgotten country. An' damme if that isn't Coke, red as a lobster. Jimmie, me boy, put it there! Man, but you're a dashed long way from port!" Happily, Iris was too stunned to betray herself.
Well, then, for the sake of others you ought not to rush off to that God-forgotten sea-rock just when you are wanted in town, all for a woman you last saw a hundred years ago. 'No it was only nineteen and three quarters, replied his friend, with abstracted literalness. He went the next morning.
On second thought, I think I would have some flowers; and maybe a bit of ivy-green. The new chum might be trying to work out his own salvation, and the sight of the roses and ivy would show him that he hadn't struck such a God-forgotten country after all, and help strengthen the hope for something better that's in the heart of every vagabond till he dies."
It had drifted somehow into our dug-out on the Scarpe, and after we had all stuck in the second chapter it had disappeared in the mud to which it naturally belonged. The lady praised its 'poignancy' and 'grave beauty'. I assented and congratulated myself on my second escape for if the question had been put to me I should have described it as God-forgotten twaddle.
"Hereward, Hereward!" cried his mother, "godless, god-forgotten boy, what words are these? Silence, before you burden your soul with an oath which the devils in hell will accept, and force you to keep!" and she sprung up, and, seizing his arm, laid her hand upon his mouth. Hereward looked at her majestic face, once lovely, now careworn, and trembled for a moment.
Small plain beyond, covered with water and tufts of grass. The inevitable, God-forgotten "timber," black in the distance; dull, grey sky and misty rain over all. A small, dark-looking flock of sheep was crawling slowly in across the flat from the unknown, with three men on horse-back zigzagging patiently behind. The horses just moved that was all.
Really, they constituted an expression of the unmeaning, hopeless, melancholy life that is lived in the wilder and more remote districts of Russia of the life that is lived on swampy banks of dingy rivers, and in our smaller and more God-forgotten towns.
"Child, you talk as a very wise man might!" said Prince Sovrani, his rugged brows smoothing into a kindly smile. "But the unfortunate Abbe is not likely to be judged in that way. It will be said of him that he scandalized the world before he left it!" "When truth is made scandal, and right is made wrong," said Manuel, "It will surely be a God-forgotten world!" "WILL be?
Only a desert of hills and stones and two-penny half-penny streams a child can walk across; and yet why you'll hear folk blether about it as though heaven would only be a bad substitute." The other laughed. "There is a magic here. It gets into your blood." "So it does. Even a God-forgotten hole like Princetown with nothing to see but the poor devils of convicts.
In time they reaches ther buttes. They climbs to ther top ter see what might lay beyond, but they see nuthin' but ther same God-forgotten country.
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