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By this time Gito had been worn off his legs, and was gathering new strength, when Tryphoena came back to me, but disappointed of her expectations, her love turn'd to a downright fury; and, all on fire with following me to no purpose, got into my intrigue both with Lycas and his wife: She made no account of his gamesomeness with me, as well knowing it wou'd hinder no grist to her mill: But for Doris, she never left till she had found out our private amours, and gave a hint of it to Lycas; whose jealousie having got the upper hand of his love, ran all to revenge; but Doris, advertis'd by Tryphoena's woman, to divert the storm, forbore any such meetings.
Some isolated communities, however, remained outside for years." "The mill seems, indeed, to have been calculated to grind to an exceeding fineness all opposition to the new order," I observed, "and yet it must have had its own difficulties, too, in the natural refractoriness of the materials it had to make grist of.
"Gentlemen's dressing-room up-stairs to the right, Colonel," called Beasley, as he closed the door. There was a pause of awed silence among us. Dowden. "By the Almighty!" said Simeon Peck, hoarsely. "Who WHAT was Dave Beasley talkin' to? There wasn't nobody THERE!" "Git out," Grist bade him; but his tone was perturbed. "He seen that reporter. He was givin' us the laugh."
Buddy's mind was thirsty, his curiosity was boundless, questions popped out of him at every step, and every answer, every bit of information or of philosophy that fell from the visitor's lips he pounced upon, avidly examined, then carefully put away for future use. He was like a magpie filling its nest. Gray's personal habits, mannerisms, tricks all were grist for Buddy's mill.
"Thur's a good grist o' 'em," said Ike, "leastways a kupple o' thousand in the gang thur's bulls, cows, yearlins, an' young calf too, so we'll have a choice o' meat either beef or veal. Kin we do better than foller 'em up? Eh, Mark?" "Wal! I don't think we can, ole boss," replied Redwood. "They passed hyur yesterday, jest about noon that is the thick o' the drove passed then."
It's all very well, objects reader, and very easy to consider this done; but the difficulty is not so much to do it, answers writer, as to escape the bother of prolixity by proving how much has been done, and how speedily all might be even completed, had poor poesy in these ticketing times only a fair field and no disfavour; for there is at hand good grist, ready ground, baked and caked, and waiting for its eaters.
The Towers were thorough-going business-men; they built a large grist mill, with four run of stone, and also a distillery. In those days it was customary for nearly all classes to drink spirituous liquors; hence, the distilleries were sources of great pecuniary interest to those who owned them.
The only trouble he and Grist and that crowd could give us would be by finding out something against Dave, and they can't do that because there isn't anything to find out." I shared his confidence on this latter score, but was somewhat less sanguine on some others.
No pickings for us this time, my lads." But there was more there than he expected. There was always the chance of her having been captured by the French, in which case her recapture would bring some little grist to our mill, and so we crowded sail for her.
You can grind your grist when he chooses, not when you will." I nodded. My watch ticked on, "When you live on a marsh where the tide may suddenly rise house-high without warning, if you are a wise man, you will keep a boat always moored at the door." "I certainly will," responded I, with energy. "Very well. Every nation lives on that marsh which is called War.
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