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All over the land there were yokels and the spouses of yokels and even the children of yokels, moved by a like interest and curiosity; while rural visitors to New York, and also New Yorkers born for that matter if such a person as a born New Yorker actually existed craned their necks from the tops of the Fifth Avenue buses in the hope of catching a glimpse of the great man, who, for a brief, flitting moment was an institution of as much importance as the Obelisk or the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
They don't have to meet a daily schedule, don't have to spread canvas in the rain or look at a mob tittering yokels all the time. That's the life for me and the Gillis outfit is my pattern." "They are fine people," said Welborn. "We will keep in close contact with them. We need them now. The time may come when they will need us."
Now, poor people, yokels, clods, cannot love what is incomprehensible to them. An idol must have their attributes: a king must show his face now and then: a song must appeal to their intelligence, to subdue them quite. This, as we know, is not the case in the higher circles. Emilia may have divined it: possibly from the very great respect with which her finale was greeted.
"Some of these country yokels must represent us," he observed. "It doesn't matter much whether it's Hopkins or someone else." "Except that you, being a prominent man, owe it to the community to protect its interests," added the lawyer. "Do you want me to mix in these petty politics?" asked the boy, irritably. "Oh, do as you like, my boy.
Ashleigh," he went on, turning to the Professor, "but I'd like you just to point out to the Scotland Yard gentleman called us yokels, he did, when he first came down that we've a few ideas of our own down here." Quest suddenly whispered to the Professor. Then he turned to the keeper. "Bring him upstairs, Middleton, for a moment," he directed. "Follow us, please."
For country gentlemen there was hunting, coursing, cock-fights, the exhilarating watching of cudgelling bouts between yokels, besides visiting, and much eating and drinking and smoking of tobacco while jovial, and sometimes not too fastidious stories were told.
"I made myself responsible for him up to a certain point. I gave him an occupation. It was intended, was it not, to divert his mind from speaking against religion to the yokels?" "Quite a character, if I may say so," put in Mr. Forman cheerfully. Crashaw was seated at his study table; the affair had something the effect of an examining magistrate taking the evidence of witnesses.
And but that he is so brave and genuine and fine of fibre, he would never have had the courage to hold up his head again. But even the basest of the yokels and groundlings could not make merry over the cozening of so noble a gentleman!
So he stayed, not daring to move, until a dinner horn sounded somewhere in the cluster of cottages beyond, and the smith, closing the doors of his shop, went away with the three yokels. Then Mr. Trimm, stooping low, stole back into the deep woods again.
Marietta described experiences with her beaux in Wisconsin and characteristics of her yokel neighbors at Blackwood, Angela joining in. Finally MacHugh drew a pencil sketch of Marietta followed by a long train of admiring yokels, her eyes turned up in a very shy, deceptive manner. "Now I think that's cruel," she declared, when Eugene laughed heartily. "I never look like that."
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