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Updated: May 5, 2025
Now I was to see war, more closely and intimately than before, in another nation; and I stood with homage in my heart before the spirit of Belgium and that heroic people who, when I came upon them, had lost all but the last patch of territory, but still fought, almost alone, a tenacious, bloody and unending battle against the Power which had laid low their cities, mangled their ancient beauties, and changed their little land of peaceful industry into a muck-heap of slaughter and destruction.
The wind had blown down the plank, but the storm had passed over. "What do you think of that crowing?" the Yard Cock inquired of his hens and chickens. "It was a little rough the elegance was wanting." And hens and chickens stepped upon the muck-heap, and the Cock strutted to and fro on it like a knight.
I have now got her sister Catherine, a chit of eleven, who seems likely to become even worse than her elder. One comes across her in every corner with that little scamp, Vincent. It's no good, you may pull their ears till they bleed, the woman always crops up in them. They carry perdition about with them and are only fit to be thrown on a muck-heap.
It shines in his vocabulary, like a jewel in a muck-heap. And, even so, he continually misapplies it. For you must have observed he uses it as a sort of taunt, in the sense of to ergotise, implying, as it were the poor, dear fellow! a vein of sophistry. As for his cruelty to Jean-Marie, it must be forgiven him it is not his nature, it is the nature of his life.
Nearer the steam of human sweat borne in upon the air from Les Artaud, the musty odour of the cemetery, the fragrance of incense from the church, tainted by the scent of greasy-haired wenches. And there was also the steaming muck-heap, the fumes of the poultry-yard, the oppressing ferment of animal germs.
"My knee's sound enough to teach this countryman manners, b'gad; you heard him say my coat was filthy?" "So it is, Sling, my boy, devilish dirty! So are your knees look at 'em! But if you will dismount head over heels into a muck-heap, my dear fellow, what the dooce can you expect?" The Captain merely swore.
I shall advise you of my further progress, and shall esteem highly a friendly scrawl from you. If you write, do not fail to tell me what you may hear of Mr. Latour Cleveland, and how he got down from the muck-heap.
Strange scion of an adventuress, cast upon the muck-heap of that set, like a magnificent plant nurtured upon corruption, or rather like the daughter of some noble race, of some great artist, or of some grand lord, of some prince or dethroned king, tossed some evening into her mother's arms, nobody can make out what she is nor what she thinks. But you are going to see her."
Not a butcher's shop which is not black with flies and "high" with rotten meat: flies lie upon every article of food. And in the very vortex of this muck-heap astounding to the traveller are content to live wealthy Jews, happy to flourish all their lives shoulder to shoulder with unutterable squalor.
Self-appointed popular leaders, crafty politicians, scheming preachers, aspiring editors, and ambitious demagogues crop up. They are the mushroom growth of the muck-heap of the new civilization. Hardin gathers up with friendships the rising men of all the counties.
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