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Updated: May 2, 2025
"So, you see, my dear fellow, if I do not believe in God, I believe still less in man. But do not you know in me another Desplein, altogether different from the Desplein whom every one abuses? However, we will not stir that mud-heap. "Well, I was living in that house, I was working hard to pass my first examination, and I had no money at all. You know.
Don't you think it would be a good thing if we were to smear ourselves all over with it, and then hang some of those lovely weeds round our necks? Callia was delighted with this idea, and the two forthwith sat themselves down in the softest mud-heap they could find, and began to cover themselves with mud very diligently.
The captain happened to have a haunch of venison on his shoulder, and the blunderbuss under his arm, so that the crash and the splash, as they all floundered in the mud, were too much for Larry, who sat down again on the mud-heap and roared with laughter. It is needless to go further into the details of this misadventure.
But well, whatever has come to it since, it passes me to know; when I went away that there bed was so smooth and tidy as my hand; when I comes back to it well, ma'am, you honestly might have knocked me flat with a feather, that there newly made bed was well, 'twas more like a mud-heap than anything you ever saw in your life, ma'am, and trampled well, out of all shape and semblance.
"Say, it would tickle me to death to set these mutton-headed gophers jumping around. You'll get those kiddies if you need 'em, if I have to blow hell into this mud-heap of a city." Jessie's eyes glowed at the man's note of savage strength and confidence. She knew he could and would do as he said, and this very fact yielded her to him more surely than any other display could have done.
It is curious how in this country of shell craters you can look at a trench without realising that it is a trench. A mud-heap parapet is not so different from the mud-heap round a crater's rim, except that it is more regular. Even to discover your own trench is often like finding a bush road. You are told that there is a trench over there and you cannot miss it.
By degrees he led the subject to her changed condition in life the alteration from a cold, damp, smoky hovel, to a warm, clean, slated house the cheerful garden before the door that replaced the mud-heap and the duck-pool and all the other happy changes which a few weeks had effected.
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