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Updated: June 7, 2025
All the indescribable beauty of the place was strong around him, but he saw only the bruised face of the suffering boy, who had hedged for the information he wanted as a diplomat, argued as a judge, fought as a sheik, and triumphed as a devil. When the pain lessened and breath relieved Freckles' pounding heart, he watched the Boss covertly.
Everywhere man seems hedged about by physical forces and physical laws. Yet with the prerogative of civilization he has become master rather than servant of nature. He has improved wild fruits and vegetables by cultivation, he has domesticated wild animals, he has harnessed the water of the streams and the winds of heaven.
Hallowed little garden patches were ruthlessly excavated; converted into "dug-outs" disagreeably suggestive of the grave and these were covered over and hedged in with sacks of earth. The apartments thus improvised were excellent in their way, but somewhat damp and dismal.
"I don't know about the rest," Casey hedged uncomfortably. "They was figurin' on doing something else. But I guess I could finish up the work for yuh, all right. How deep is your shaft?" "It's a tunnel," she corrected. "My husband started four years ago to drift in to the contact. He'd gone fifty feet when he died.
Peter got less buoyant as he proceeded, and towards the end he was rather lame. A silence followed. The great man scrutinised the order. "Where were you?" he demanded at last, abruptly. It was an awkward question. Peter hedged. "The O.C. of my camp asked me to go out with him," he said at last, feebly. The other picked up a blue pencil and scrawled further on the order.
"Your hair!" cried the poor lad. "Oh, Isoult, I dare not." It reached her knees, was black as night, and straight as rain. It might have echoed Vincent's reproach. But the mistress of both was inexorable. "Cut it to clear my shoulders, please." He groaned, but remembered that there would be spoils, that he must even touch this hedged young goddess.
An employee whose industrial life is hedged about by hard and unjust conditions, which he did not create and over which he has no control, lacks that fine spirit of enthusiasm and volunteer effort which are the necessary ingredients of a great producing entity. Let us be frank about this solemn matter.
And she is out of danger! Hedged around about by sorrow, assailed by temptation, overshadowed by sin. And, "the danger is over!" Buffeted by the waves of adversity; longing for things out of reach; running after ignis fatui with eager outstretched hands, and careless, hurrying feet, among pitfalls and snares. And, out of danger!
Here there are handsome houses with very pleasant gardens, teeming orchards, and shadowy groves, adapted to all kinds of secret meetings, in which one can hunt birds and a certain fair coney; here there are delightful rivers for fishing, and wide fields hedged around, in which it is pleasant to hunt the hare and fox.
Now, don't begin by being cross with me because I call you 'dear. If you realized what I've done for you, and what I'm ready to do, you'd say I'd earned that right, to begin with!" "I don't understand you at all, or why you should claim any right," I hedged. But I sat down, and he sank so heavily into an ancient, plush-covered chair that a spray of dust flew up from the cushions.
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