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Updated: May 23, 2025

The girl made a little gesture of pain, and then stepped softly over and, kneeling, looked into Throng's face. The lips were moving. "Dad," she said, "are you asleep?" "I be a durn fool, I be," he said in a whisper, and then he began to cough. She took his' hands. They were cold, and she rubbed them softly. "I feel so a'mighty holler," he said, gasping, "an' that bread's sour agin."

Gilbert Parker - Romany of the Snows, Continuation of "Pierre and His People"

Here," he added to the others, "up with your popguns; this shindy's off; and the girl goes back till the old man tucks up. Have a drink," he added to Pierre, as he stood his rifle in a corner and came to the table. In half an hour Pierre and the girl were on their way, leaving Borotte quarrelling with the brothers, and all drinking heavily. The two arrived at Throng's late the next afternoon.

Gilbert Parker - Romany of the Snows, Continuation of "Pierre and His People", v5

Here, Caleb, fish out the brandy-wine," he added to his younger brother, who went to a cupboard and brought the bottle. Pierre, waving the liquor away, said quietly to the girl: "You wish to go back to your father, to Jimmy Throng?" He then gave her Throng's message, and added: "He sits there rocking in the big chair and coughing coughing!

Gilbert Parker - Romany of the Snows, Continuation of "Pierre and His People"

"You've no call to know." "You stole her, forced her from Throng's-her father's house." "She wasn't Throng's; she was a Bontoff sister of us. "Well, she says Throng, and Throng it's got to be." "What have you got to say about it?" At that moment Lydia appeared at the door leading from the kitchen. "Whatever she has to say," answered Pierre. "Who're you talking for?"

Gilbert Parker - Romany of the Snows, Continuation of "Pierre and His People", v5