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To-day he would emerge from the foothills into the open country; into the smiling country of his imagination, from somewhere in whose expanding fields now came the call of a toiling plowboy. It was this which finally brought him from his reverie in the sky, from his lofty dreams to the smell of earth.
When I got into New Orleans the next morning, I traded my Plowboy tobacco for a bar of laundry soap. With my twenty-five cents I bought a cotton undershirt. Then I took off all my clothes and threw my underwear away. A negro who stood watching me said: "White man, are you throwing them clothes away?" "I certainly am," I replied. "Why, them underclothes is northern underclothes.
In respect of his errand, he was sufficiently important to cast a gloom over the household. The faithless Mirabel had broken his engagement, and the plowboy was the herald of misfortune who brought his apology. He could only trust to Mr. Everybody believed in the affairs of the parish with the exception of Francine. "Mr.
"He's very handsome in a way." "He's red and big-jointed, and he's a common plowboy." Mrs. Thayer gasped, returning to her original charge. Mrs. Saulisbury laughed, being malevolent enough to enjoy the whole situation. "He appears to me to be a very uncommon plowboy. Well, I wouldn't try to do anything about it, Charlotte," she added.
Gifford was distraught for lack of reading, went to sea at thirteen, became a shoemaker, studying algebra late at night, was savagely unsociable, sunk into torpor from which he was roused to do splenetic and vexatious tricks, which alienated his friends. Rittenhouse at fourteen was a plowboy, covering the fences with figures, musing on infinite time and space.
The father of our Tyndall spelled his name Tyndale, and traced a direct relationship to William Tyndale, who declared he would place a copy of the English Bible in the hands of every plowboy in the British Isles, and pretty nearly made good his vow. William Tyndale paid for his privileges, however. He was arrested, given an opportunity to run away, but wouldn't; then he was exiled.
Who can doubt that this deliberate assimilation, the typical artistic process, began on Pigeon Creek? Lincoln never would have captured as he did his plowboy audience, set them roaring with laughter in the intervals of labor, had he not given them back their own tales done over into new forms brilliantly beyond their powers of conception.
She had a numerous menage of daughters; and a horde of cats as pets. Whenever she walked away from her house the cats followed her in a long line, their tails gaily in the air, like little ships sailing. Mrs. Rond smoked incessantly, rolling her own cigarettes, from packages of Plowboy tobacco.... Her conversation was crisp, nervous, keen.
"Mind you come back to us on Monday!" she said. Mirabel bowed and thanked her; but his last look was for Emily, standing apart from the others at the top of the steps. Francine said nothing; her lips closed convulsively she turned suddenly pale. On the Monday, a plowboy from Vale Regis arrived at Monksmoor. In respect of himself, he was a person beneath notice.
Anyhow, whatever particular kind of an earl a belted earl may be, he is, I assert, get-overable by flattery; just as every other human being is, from a duchess to a cat's-meat man, from a plow boy to a poet and the poet far easier than the plowboy, for butter sinks better into wheaten bread than into oaten cakes. As for love, flattery is its very life-blood.
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