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He will make himself as disagreeable to us and the Levens as he can that we may be sure of. We may be thankful for one small mercy, that his mother has departed this life! otherwise you and I would have known furens quid femina posset!" The old man looked up at his grandson with a humorous eye. Aldous was standing absently before the fire, and did not reply immediately.
Its verdict was in these words: "We find that Asa Levens came to his death by act of God, and that there are found no reasons for further investigation into this matter." And so it stands in the imperishable records of the township; legal authority recognized the right of Deity to utilize a human being for his rougher sort of work.
That was all; neither Mary Ware nor any other could get more out of him, and it was said by many to be a confession of guilt. "Realizes there hain't no use makin' a defense. Calc'lates on takin' his medicine like a man," said Postmaster Pratt.... There were those in town who voiced the wish that it had been some other than Abner who had killed Asa Levens.
Then through endless passages and kitchens, bright with long rows of copper pans and molds, we made our way out into the gardens among the clipped yews and cedars, and had just light enough to see that Levens apparently is like nothing else but itself. ... The drawback of the house at present is certainly the cold! Thus began a happy and fruitful time.
"It's my duty to warn you that anythin' you say kin be used ag'in' you," said the sheriff. "Be you comin' along peaceable?" "I'm comin' peaceable," said Abner. "If God's satisfied I be." Abner Levens was locked in the unreliable jail of Coldriver village, and a watch placed over him.
That was an amazin' smart trick of mine, Dannie. Howsomever, we hain't got no more time to talk. I'm goin' to give you five dollars, Dannie, an' I want you to go to the landin' an' spend it fur me. Get me a pair of shoes number 'levens, you know an' two pair stockin's, an' spend the heft of the rest fur tobacker.
It's me does most of the work.... What we got into this place is all we got on earth ... and he threatened to take it." "He come Tuesday night," said Scattergood, as a prompter speaks. "Hush, Lindy," said Jed. "I calculate you'd best both of you talk," said Scattergood. "You'd better tell me, Jed, jest why you shot Asa Levens."
Of the Loch Leven trout, turned in two years ago as yearlings, more than two-thirds inhabit the quick-running, gravelly reaches; in consequence, they have grown very little. The few that have stayed in the deeper water have done splendidly; they are now about three-quarters of a pound in weight. No fish, not even sea trout, fight so well as these bright, silvery "Loch Levens."
It was a mark put on Asa Levens's face as a warning to folks that God mistrusted him." "When he was dead it was different," said Scattergood, with solemnity. "It said he had r'iled God past endurance." Mary nodded. She comprehended. "The truth will do," she said, confidently. "Did Abner mention last Tuesday to you?" Scattergood asked. "No." "Where was Asa Levens last Tuesday? Do you know, Mary?"
The two houses, though of much the same date, are really very different, and suggest phases of life quite distinct from each other. Levens compared to Sizergh is or was then, before the modern restoration of Sizergh the spoiled beauty beside the shabby ascetic.
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