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When the wind begins to come out of the northwest of set purpose, and to sweep the ground with low and searching fierceness, very different from the roistering, jolly bluster of early fall, I have put the strawberries under their coverlet of leaves, pruned the grape-vines and laid them under the soil, tied up the tender plants, given the fruit trees a good, solid meal about the roots; and so I turn away, writing Resurgam on the gatepost.
So Glenn Kilbourne loomed heroically in Carley's transfigured sight. He was one of Carley's battle-scarred warriors. Out of his travail he had climbed on stepping-stones of his dead self. Resurgam! That had been his unquenchable cry. Who had heard it?
But the cherubs painted on the scutcheon answered as well for her as for Sir Pitt's mother, and Resurgam was written under the coat, flanked by the Crawley Dove and Serpent. Arms and Hatchments, Resurgam. Here is an opportunity for moralising! Mr. Crawley had tended that otherwise friendless bedside. She went out of the world strengthened by such words and comfort as he could give her.
'Twas long ago, but this good steel is bright and undimmed as ever. Ha! mark it, boy those eyes o' thine shall ne'er behold its equal!" So Beltane took hold upon the great sword, felt the spring and balance of the blade and viewed it up from glittering point to plain and simple cross-guard. And thus, graven deep within the broad steel he read this word: RESURGAM.
'Resurgam! said the butler. 'They will be here in ten days so let everything be in readiness, Jonathan. God bless my soul! continued the old gentleman, 'I hardly know what I'm about. It's a Spanish girl, Jonathan! 'What is, sir? 'What is, sir! why, Captain Templemore's wife; and he was tried as a pirate! 'Who, sir? 'Who, sir? why, Francis, his brother! Jonathan, you're a stupid old fellow!
There, in the transparent green shadow, stand the two mills the old one with A.D. 1679, and the Wylder arms, and the eternal 'resurgam' projecting over its door; and higher up, on a sort of platform, the steep bank rising high behind it, with its towering old wood overhanging and surrounding, upon a site where one of king Arthur's knights, of an autumn evening, as he rode solitary in quest of adventures, might have seen the peeping, gray gable of an anchorite's chapel dimly through the gilded stems, and heard the drowsy tinkle of his vesper-bell, stands an old and small two-storied brick and timber house; and though the sun does not very often glimmer on its windows, it yet possesses an air of sad, old-world comfort a little flower-garden lies in front with a paling round it.
"But," said Lord Mauleverer, who was the idlest of men, "the judgeship is not an easy sinecure." "No; but there is less demand on the mind in that station than in my present one;" and Brandon paused before he continued. "Candidly, Mauleverer, you do not think they will deceive me, you do not think they mean to leave me to this political death without writing 'Resurgam' over the hatchment?"
Her grave is in Brocklebridge churchyard: for fifteen years after her death it was only covered by a grassy mound; but now a grey marble tablet marks the spot, inscribed with her name, and the word "Resurgam." Hitherto I have recorded in detail the events of my insignificant existence: to the first ten years of my life I have given almost as many chapters.
But it's a long story, Jonathan and a very wonderful one! his poor mother has long been dead!" "In caelo quies!" said Jonathan, casting up his eyes. "But his brother has turned up again." "Resurgam!" said the butler. "They will be here in ten days so let everything be in readiness, Jonathan. God bless my soul!" continued the old gentleman, "I hardly know what I'm about.
That would be too much of a joke; I'll take care of that. So he got up at night, and he got some fellows with him, and they climbed up and painted out 'Resurgam, and they painted into its place, 'Requiescat in pace; which means, you know, 'you'd a great deal better stay where you are. Now I call that good. Fred Hatherly did that as sure as as sure as as sure as anything."
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