|
Then let us refresh your historical memory.
The Swiss resented the implied jeer
at his Titan.
Its fearful, its awful, its croo-el,and he began to weep
affectedly.
He wet his big thumb quickly on histongue. Its wonderful what that
little girlcan do to him. Youre a big strapping fellow, inthe prime of life.
Old Major Pentland never did an honest days work in his life,Gant yelled, as a
happy afterthought. Its wonderful what that little girlcan do to him.
Will
Pentland closed his blunt knife and put it in his pocket. He was caught,
drowning in the tides of his thirst.
Over the wife, over themother, the woman
of property, who was like a man, walked slowlyforth. Withoutsaying another
word, he left the room, and mounted the stairs.
You need something to take your
mind off yourself. Had something to eat that didntagree with you?
It is nothing
but a curse and a care, andthe tax-collector gets it all in the end. At the
gate, outside Gants, he found patient Jannadeau, fetcheddown by Ben.
The
strange figure of Oliver Gant cast its famous shadow throughthe town. What have
I ever done that God should punishme like this in my old age?
In my boyhood I
could recite it by the hour.
I havent seen it yet, papa, Helen answered.
Old
Major Pentland never did an honest days work in his life,Gant yelled, as a
happy afterthought.
|
