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Updated: June 12, 2025
Brice-Ashton." "I'm sure I'm pleased to meet you, Mr. Blake," murmured Ashton, his voice breaking slightly as Blake grasped his gloved hand in the bare calloused palm. "Any friend of Miss Jenny's!" responded Blake with hearty cordiality. But as he released the other's hand, he muttered half to himself, "Ashton? Ashton? Haven't I met you before, somewhere?"
"Naked women." "And people pay you for that?" "They seem to." "Do they pay well?" "Yes, of course. I am a rich man according to you." "In Thailand, one finds both the calloused and the silky types but in Laos even some of the higher government officials are workers in their secondary vocations. They all have the damnedest hands." "What? Do you study the hands of government officials too?"
By that brief glow Mac Strann looked up and down the wall. The match burned out against the calloused tips of his fingers. "That wall," mused Strann, "ain't made out of the same timber as the side of the barn. That wall is whole years newer. Haw-Haw, that ain't the end of the barn. They's a holler space beyond it." He lighted another match, and then cursed softly in delight. "Look!" he commanded.
The colonel summoned the sheriff, who took Joe to his cell. As the colonel and Mrs. Newbolt passed out, Attorney Hammer appeared, presenting his order for the money. Mrs. Newbolt carried her savings with her. When she had paid Hammer she had sixty cents left in her calloused palm. "That's egg money," said she, tying it in the corner of her handkerchief.
Here, those who have calloused hands and working-clothes are disdained; there, it is all who do not wear blue jeans. Children educated in this spirit make sad fellow-citizens.
He never had seen her looking so beautiful, so full of the joy of living. Her friendly, sparkling smile sent a momentary pang of shame into his calloused heart, but it passed with the buoyant justification of his decision to do nothing in the end that might mar his son's happiness. She was walking to town and assured him that she rejoiced in his distinguished company.
Una sighed. Here were too many difficulties for her to solve. She shuddered as she thought of being cruelly whipped. Very likely she would have lied too. She squeezed Mary's little calloused hand. "Is that the only dress you've got?" asked Faith, whose joyous nature refused to dwell on disagreeable subjects. "I just put on this dress because it was no good," cried Mary flushing. "Mrs.
The words rang sharply through the room, and Neil started as if a pistol had been fired at him. "You want me? You!" he said, staring blankly at her as she went on rapidly: "Yes, I want you, and have come to tell you so. I am an odd old woman, hard to be moved, but I am not quite calloused yet.
How many a seamed, rugged face, how many a burden-bent back, how many a faltering footstep, how many a knotted, calloused hand is perhaps more nearly in the image of God than the fairer face, the straighter figure, the softer palm! The shepherds were not only poor, but they laboured in their poverty; they were working men and they worshipped Him, the Working Man.
That was five years ago, but if I should go back to Parma tomorrow, I would go straight to the Market-Place, and I know that my old friend would reach out a brown calloused hand to give me welcome, and the choicest rose in her basket would be mine the heart understands.
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