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Yet if people are drawn together by those mysterious affinities which, like the daughters of the horse-leech, are ever crying, "Give, give," a few bits of paper bridge over space well enough, and enable us to recognize abroad the scattered fragments that complete ourselves.
He shook the canteen near his ear. "Alas! no gurgle responds to my fond caresses Canteen, Mavourneen, O, why art thou silent, Thou voice of my heart? It is woe is me it is empty." "Of course it is you were the last one at it." "I hurl that foul imputation back into thy teeth base knave. Thou thyself art a very daughter of a horse-leech with a canteen of whisky." Abe looked at him inquiringly.
Pledge yourself for me, that, for the glorious cause of lucre, I will do anything, be anything; but the horse-leech of private oppression, or the vulture of public robbery! But to descend from heroics. I want a Shakespeare; I want likewise an English dictionary, Johnson's, I suppose, is best. In these and all my prose commissions, the cheapest is always the best for me.
M. Marat was a logician of this sort, and M. Romieu is, after all, only a pale imitator of the cracked horse-leech; but as he wrote in the interest of "order," and for the preservation of property, we rarely hear of his thirst for blood.
His steed betrays hard usage. He alights before his adobe dwelling, hastily exchanges courtesies with his townsmen, hurries to an assay office and from thence to the District Recorder's. In the morning, having renewed his provisional supplies, he is off again on his wild and unbeaten route. Why, the fellow numbers already his feet by the thousands. He is the horse-leech.
Such, and many such like, were the morning attendants of the Duke of Buckingham all genuine descendants of the daughter of the horse-leech, whose cry is "Give, give." But the levee of his Grace contained other and very different characters; and was indeed as various as his own opinions and pursuits.
"A cursed ungentle son-in-law, truly!" said he; "the hard iron pains me like the bite of a horse-leech. Cursed be the hearth whereon it was heated, and the smith who formed it! So sharp is it! Henceforth, whenever I go up hill, I shall have a scant in my breath, and a pain in my chest, and I shall often loathe my food." And they went to meat. And the third day they returned to the palace.
The paint was not long dry on the Goddess of Love at any rate, her dress was not worn out before he had seen her in her true colours; "the daughter of the horse-leech, crying Give, Give."
She was married to a tedious old Mumpsiman that kept himself and her in little ease by plying the trade of a horse-leech, which trade, for the girl's felicity, held him much abroad, and gave her occasion, seldom by her neglected, to prove to her intimate of the hour that there can be fire without smoke.
"My father is a wine-skin swollen with wine, and my mother a greedy horse-leech." The old woman glanced to right and left, to see if she were observed. Then, in a fawning voice "Sweet flowering hyacinth, beautiful drinker of light, come with me, and you shall have nothing to do but dance and smile. I will feed you on honey cakes, and my son my own son will love you as his eyes.
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