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Harry had not mentioned his intentions either to James Starr or to the old overman. Jack had been discreet enough to say nothing. Harry had provided himself with a rope about 200 feet long. It was not particularly thick, but very strong sufficiently so to sustain his weight. His friends were to let him down into the gulf, and his pulling the cord was to be the signal to withdraw him.
The bustle of the old days will soon begin with the blows of the pick, and mattock, blasts of powder, rumbling of wagons, neighing of horses, creaking of machines! I shall see it all again! I hope, Mr. Starr, that you will not think me too old to resume my duties of overman?" "No, Simon, no indeed! You wear better than I do, my old friend!" "And, sir, you shall be our viewer again.
One tributary to the mighty stream of our interest in the opera of Parsifal has its spring in the date of its appearance. It comes as the poet's last word. What a procession of heroes has passed before us beautiful, brave, romantic, how fit, every one, to capture the imagination! Towering a little above the rest, Siegfried, the Uebermensch, the Overman.
This was the dark reign of the overman, in whose speech the great mass of the people were characterized as the "herd animals." All literacy was frowned upon and stamped out. From the statute-books of the times may be instanced that black law that made it a capital offence for any man, no matter of what class, to teach even the alphabet to a member of the working-class.
You are my beloved, my chosen one. I will never recognise him again. We will separate from this hour. I am yours and you are mine." Overman took her hand and, still trembling, said: "Do you know what that means?" "Yes," she answered, eagerly. "I know you will be my lord and master, and I desire it. I am sick of sentimentalism." "It means exactly that," he said, with emphasis.
By-the-bye, Harry," added the old overman, turning to his son, "Jack Ryan came here to see you." "I know, father. We met him in the Yarrow shaft." "He's an honest and a merry fellow," said Ford; "but he seems to be quite happy above ground. He hasn't the true miner's blood in his veins. Sit down, Mr. Starr, and have a good dinner, for we may not sup till late."
It was unlikely, too, that the son of the old overman had not heard of the wreck of the MOTALA, as it was in all the papers. He must know the part Jack had taken in it, and what had happened to him, and it was unlike Harry not to hasten to the farm and see how his old chum was going on. As Harry had not come, there must have been something to prevent him.
"Nothing like a good opinion of oneself," Gordon replied, good-naturedly. Overman nodded. "I never heard you explain so beautifully that 'Back to Nature' idea. I went West once and lived a year with some red folks who have been so fortunate as to never get away from Nature. They have been doing business at the same stand for several thousand years.
"It is impossible to doubt it," said James Starr; "and who can say what might not have happened had the sea, instead of a little loch, been let in upon us?" "You may well say that," cried the old overman, with a feeling of pride in his beloved mine; "for nothing less than a sea would have drowned our Aberfoyle.
He ought to be ashamed to send out a driver without a livery! 'If you please, ma'am, said the man, 'I'm Mr. Overman, and rather than disappoint you ladies, as all my men are out, I thought I'd drive you myself. Well, that was too much for even Bee. So she thanked him, and in we got. The first house we went to was that of a haughty society dame of whose opinion Bee stood much in awe.
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