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Updated: June 18, 2025
Vetch has been wool gathering: "Quandoque dormitat Homerus eh, Humphrey? "Which means, ma'am, that you sometimes catch a weasel asleep. Depend on't, he engrossed the wrong docket, and by this time has discovered the true will in one of his moldy boxes. Gad, it'll ruin him, though if his nephew has not done it already. A family lawyer can't afford to be caught napping.
Mistress Pennyquick shed a plenitude of tears, and I had a monstrous lump in my throat that threatened to choke me if I tried to speak. With a discretion that raised him mightily in Becky's esteem, Mr. Vetch fell behind, leaving us two together; and so with full hearts we took the road, going into our new life hand in hand. This turn in our affairs was a nine days' wonder in Shrewsbury.
The servile tribe of Hagheri live in reed huts; we saw them threshing gilgil and vetch. There are a market and a few shops. I had no trouble about taking photographs. Once, however, one of our attendants asked a man to move out of my way and gave him a little push.
"But just look at me for a moment, pet, as you go by," cried the purple vetch by the hedge. A colt in the field, seeing Bevis running so fast, thought he too must join the fun, so he whisked his tail, stretched his long floundering legs, and galloped away. Then the mare whinnied and galloped too, and the ground shook under her heavy hoofs.
The thought of Patty rushed over him like the wind at dawn or the light of the sunrise. There was deliverance; there was freedom of spirit! She was the impulse he dared not follow, the risk he dared not take, the red flower he dared not wear. "What lovely eyes Miss Vetch has," Margaret was saying. "Don't you think so, Cousin Harriet?" Mrs. Culpeper sniffed at her bottle of smelling-salts.
The ground he took was one of nauseating morality, but I inferred that he is trying to force Vetch to agree to this general strike, and that he is prepared to threaten him with some kind of exposure if he doesn't. This, however, was mere surmise on my part. The fellow is as shrewd as he is unprincipled." When Corinna believed it was in full measure and overflowing. "It's not true.
The arrested dignity of the past seemed to the young man to hover above the old mansion within its setting of box hedges and leafless lilac shrubs and snow-laden magnolia trees. He saw the house contrasted against the crude surroundings of the improved and disfigured Square, and against the house, attended by all its stately traditions, he saw the threatening figure of Gideon Vetch.
"Only a demagogue! My dear Corinna, the demagogue is the one everlasting and unalterable American institution. He is the idol of the Senate chamber; the power behind the Constitution." "But what does he really stand for Vetch, I mean?" "Ask him. He would enjoy telling you." "Would he enjoy telling me the truth?" With the laughter still in his eyes Benham drew nearer and stood looking down on her.
What an abundance of self-assertiveness he had contrived to express in his thin spruce figure, his tightly curling black hair, which grew too low on his forehead, and his short black moustache with pointed ends which curved up like polished metal from his full red lips. "I suppose he is on his way to the Governor," mused the young man idly. "How on earth does Vetch stand him?"
How much had they ever understood of that symbol of a changing world which they had loved and hated under the name of Gideon Vetch? "Give her a few minutes more," she said. "Leave her alone with him."
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