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A chap with no great harm in him that I see, except that he is a sniveler and psalm-singer, and makes you sick at times, but he isn't lazy; and now they are mauling him because he couldn't do the work of two. A man can but do his best, black or white, and it is infernal stupidity as well as cruelty to torment a fellow because he can't do more than he can do.
He was a scapegrace, and was always spending money in London while the respectable psalm-singer was hoarding it in Ullerton. There used to be desperate quarrels between the two men, and towards the end of Jonathan Haygarth's life the old man made half a dozen different wills in favour of half a dozen different people, and cutting off scapegrace Matthew with a shilling.
At length, having premised that the poem was a dialogue between the poet Oisin, or Ossian, and Patrick, the tutelar Saint of Ireland, and that it was difficult, if not impossible, to render the exquisite felicity of the first two or three lines, he said the sense was to this purpose: "Patrick the psalm-singer, Since you will not listen to one of my stories, Though you never heard it before, I am sorry to tell you You are little better than an ass"
How else could the deathly pallor of her countenance while she fixed her eyes wide and unmoving upon his face, and the flush that ever and anon swept its red shadow over the pallor as she cast them on the ground at some brave word from the lips of the canting psalm-singer, be in the least intelligible? Then came the difficulty: how in that case was her share in his capture to be explained?
"Go on and state it, and don't be all night about it." "I may add that I also came to warn you against the movements of Hasbrook. I will begin at the beginning." "Begin, then; and don't go round Cape Horn in doing it," snarled the captain. "I will, sir. Captain Patterdale " "Another miserable psalm-singer. Is he in the scrape?" "He is, sir.
I was a manufacturer I owned a factory, do you understand?" "You needn't shout at me I knew that before. And after that, what did you manufacture?" "What do you mean, after that?" "You know what I mean in jail." Hürlin emitted a bleating laugh. "Oh, I suppose you're one of the pious kind a psalm-singer, eh?" "I? That's the last thing!
They have prayers with him every morning in his cabin. You will not turn psalm-singer, I hope, lad." "I don't suppose I shall," answered Archy. "But still I should not like to be washed overboard, as Bill and Ned were the other night." "As to that, you must run your chance as others do," answered Max. "I don't let such things trouble me." Archy could not help letting them trouble him, though.
The priest looked questioningly at him, but, as Sanine remained silent, he turned away, smoothed his hair back, donned his stole and in high-pitched, unctuous tones began to chant the prayers for the dying. The psalm-singer had a bass voice, hoarse and disagreeable, so that the vocal contrast was a painfully discordant one as the sound of this chanting rose to the lofty ceiling.
When on another night two or three began the same sort of work, the rest cried out and told them to let the little psalm-singer alone; even old Hixon held his tongue, and from that time forward Peter was allowed to say his prayers in peace.
We are two of a kind, just as like as two hogs from one litter you the sanctimonious psalm-singer and I the conscienceless profligate we are brothers at last in our beastliness." Dale walked with his hands clasped behind his back, thoughtfully looking at the trees, and trying to suppress his wild imaginations. But he could not suppress them.
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