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They did not speak again through the short drive; and when they reached the house and entered the hall, Patty turned for the first time to Corinna. "I can never tell you," she began, "I can never tell you " Then, with a strangled sob, she broke away and ran to the staircase beyond the library. "Let her rest," said Corinna, as Vetch came with her on the porch. "Leave her to herself.
"What's this cock-and-bull story that's running over the town?" he cried without circumstance. Before I could reply, Mistress Pennyquick began to pour out her tale of woe, roundly accusing Sir Richard Cludde and Lawyer Vetch of conspiring to defraud me of my rights.
But in their endeavor to escape they impeded each other: Vetch tripped, and before he could recover his footing Joe had him in an iron grip, and began to shake him as I had many times seen our terrier shake a rat he had caught in the barn. "Let me go!" yells Cyrus. "Help, Dick! Kick his shins!" But Cludde, though a big fellow enough, was never over ready to put his head in chancery.
On the bean and the vetch the Bruchus founded colonies in which the infant mortality was low. There was room for all. On the pea-vine, delicious though its fruits may be, the greater part of its offspring die of starvation. The rations are few, and the hungry mouths are multitudinous. We will linger over this problem no longer.
It is the terrible privilege of insanity to be sleepless. On the fifth day, Vetch, creeping behind a tree, takes off his belt, and makes a noose. He will hang himself. He gets one end of the belt over a bough, and then his cowardice bids him pause. Gabbett approaches; he tries to evade him, and steal away into the bush. In vain.
"Those twelve years are nothing unless you imagine that you are in a novel. It is only in books that there is a chronology of the emotions." "She is a fat blonde without a heart," insisted Corinna, "and they are invulnerable." "Well, snatch Vetch away from her. He deserves something better than that combination."
It seemed incredible that his work should be finished for ever when he was still so unspent, so full of tireless activity. Was death always like this a victory of material and mechanical forces? An accident, an automatic gesture, and the complex power which stood for the soul of Gideon Vetch was dissolved or released. The crumbling of a rock, the falling of a leaf!
I meant simply that you both habitually speak the truth, and because you speak the truth the world mistakes you for a successful comedian and Vetch for a kind of political Robin Hood." "Well, he is trying to hold us up in highwayman fashion, isn't he?" asked Corinna. "Does it look that way?" inquired the Judge, with his beaming smile which cast an edge of genial irony on everything that he said.
I left next morning, promising to see my friends as often as possible before I received the summons which I hoped for from Admiral Benbow. Mr. Allardyce lent me one of his horses, which he was kind enough to place at my service while I remained at home. In my breast pocket I carried a warrant in due form for the arrest of Cyrus Vetch. There was a great surprise awaiting me at Shrewsbury.
However, he who first of that house was surnamed Cicero seems to have been a person worthy to be remembered; since those who succeeded him not only did not reject, but were fond of that name, though vulgarly made a matter of reproach. For the Latins call a vetch Cicer, and a nick or dent at the tip of his nose, which resembled the opening in a vetch, gave him the surname of Cicero.
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