The next morning he resumed his journey by
coach.
Another brother hadbeen killed during the Seven
Days. Daisy, from a neighbors sanctuary, wept in shame and fear.
He departed, leaving in thehouse a middle-aged
country woman. Both before and aft, said Will with a smart wink. He thought of
Cynthia now, in thelonely and hostile town, and he became afraid. Over the wife,
over themother, the woman of property, who was like a man, walked
slowlyforth.
Every one said he should have been an actor. All
day, under a wet gray sky of October, Oliver rode westwardacross the mighty state.
Will Pentland was in Loughrans when she entered. In my boyhood I could recite it by
the hour.
Most of thetime we think were sick its all in the
mind. And what Eliza endured in pain and fear and glory no one knew.
How came he here from the cleanDutch thrift of his
youth into this vast lost earth of rickets? High empty laughtershook a group of
yokels sprawled on two turned seats.
The room sounded with the fat pleased laughter of
the Pentlands. There are a lot of his folks around here. The room sounded with the
fat pleased laughter of the Pentlands. He wanted to wreak somethingdark and
unspeakable in him into cold stone. If Id been there, you canbet your bottom dollar
thered been no loss.
The trees rose gauntand stark: they were almost
leafless.
Daisy, from a neighbors sanctuary, wept in shame
and fear. For him the house was the picture of his soul, the garment of
hiswill.
The train crawleddizzily across high trestles
spanning ghostly hawsers of water.
Itwas a gray-golden day in late October, bright and
windy.
His tremendous bouts of drinking had wrecked his
health.
The train rattled on over the reeking
earth.
You want to laysomething by for a rainy day, dont
you?
He was enormously pleased: they were both strung on
the same wires.
Gant roared, pounding the flimsy door heavily
withhis great fist. The room sounded with the fat pleased laughter of the Pentlands.
Gant roared, pounding the flimsy door heavily withhis great fist. How came he here
from the cleanDutch thrift of his youth into this vast lost earth of rickets? He was
enormously pleased: they were both strung on the same wires.