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Updated: June 12, 2025
'He wrote kindly about ye, but he said you'd parted. Why did you leave him, Paul? Paul was penitent and feeble of body, and his father was his dearest. Bit by bit he told his story, or as much of it as he could be told. 'Man, said Armstrong, 'ye're beginning airly. The Dreamer dreamed, and the dream showed the old ramshackle, bankrupt printing-office at Castle Barfield again.
It had been a ramshackle, tumbled-down old cabin lost in a tangle of bushes and hidden from the road by a shabby, unsightly row of old willows. Billy was going to rent it for temporary barn purposes but his wife, who had a nimble and a prophetic eye, made him buy it.
Naturally all eyes were turned on the performer, and I took advantage of that fact to rise from the rocking-chair with the roll of paper safe in my pocket, and saunter across the room in the direction of the piano. Leaning against a corner of the ramshackle old instrument, I drank in the melody with a new sense of its wild and melancholy beauty.
He needs the form and he does not mind the incongruity, nor does he mind the fact that somebody else has done the solid part and he has only done the ramshackle part. You can say that he is nobly superior to jealousy, or that he is without artistic ambition, or that he is too much of a nomad to mind living half in somebody else's house and half in his own.
"I'd expostulate with a blacksnake," growled the fiery Terry. A number waited on King. Keith was among them. They found his office in a small ramshackle frame building, situated in the middle instead of alongside one of the back streets. It had probably been one of the early small dwelling-houses, marooned by a resurvey of the streets, and never since moved.
His sons and Chris had been brought up upon their mother's fortune, a sum which had been set aside for their education by their father at her death, after which, beyond providing them with a home the ramshackle inheritance that had come to him from his father he had made little further provision for them. His eldest son, Rupert, was a subaltern in a line regiment.
Newcomers landed at first on a flat beach of deep black sand, where they generally left their personal effects for lack of means of transportation. They climbed to a ragged thoroughfare of open sheds and ramshackle buildings, most of them in the course of construction. Beneath crude shelters of all sorts and in great quantities were goods brought in hastily by eager speculators on the high prices.
It looked as though nothing but the bursting asunder of that ramshackle building would liberate its human charge, for even those who, battered, bleeding, and suffocated, would gladly have escaped into outer air, were packed in, sardine-like, and incapable of self-extrication.
A vehicle of some description turned out of the main road and headed down the lane. Laocoön-like, flanked on either hand by a writhing youthful figure, Reginald Sawyer called aloud: "Hi! Stop, there pray, stop." Darcy Faircloth lighted down out of a ramshackle Marychurch station fly, and advanced towards the rather incomprehensible group. "What's happened? What's the matter?" he said.
"I wouldn't stay here alone for anything in the world." "Heaven bless you," he exclaimed, suddenly exalted. "And, since you put it that way, I shall always contrive to be within arm's length." And so, together, they ventured along the edge of the pit until they reached the wagon road at the bottom. As he had expected, there was a ramshackle shed hard by.
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