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It seemed but natural that the numerous greetings should have exhausted the over-weary traveller; and then the reunion with his old friend it really had been too much for his strength, and the general feeling of sympathy grew deeper. As they carried him away Carmen, followed to his room; and after long, untiring efforts the old man at last began to revive.
For my part, with William I went beyond the burning to the house of a certain old priest who was my confessor, and the friend of my father before me, and there we found food and slept, he returning thanks to God for my escape and offering me consolation for the loss of my mother and goods. I rested but ill that night, as those do who are over-weary.
"Tsob, tsobe!" such fellows shout to their teams. This year they are reaping a splendid harvest. Yet though these folk, one and all, look fat and prosperous, their mien is dour, and they speak reluctantly, and through their teeth. Possibly this is because they are over-weary with toil. However that may be, the full-fed country people of the region laugh but little, and seldom sing.
He has olive oil and cedar-tar to use as healing ointments for their wounds, and he has cool, refreshing water for those that are worn and weary. Lovingly and tenderly he regards each member, as one by one they enter into rest; and they that are wounded or over-weary he holds back with his rod, till their scars and sores are duly cared for and made ready for the night’s repose.
The morning turned black, and flushed rosy, and fell black again, but for once the merciless driver of men slept on, for he was over-weary.
He fought in that daily battle of money-grubbing, with a kind of sad-eyed loyalty like a martyr's; rose early, ate fast, came home dispirited and over-weary, even from success; grudged himself all pleasure, if his nature was capable of taking any, which I sometimes wondered; and laid out, upon some deal in wheat or corner in aluminium, the essence of which was little better than highway robbery, treasures of conscientiousness and self-denial.
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