FORE:He sat down beside her and took her hand."Oh, no," she breathed, and her voice and the half-seen glimmer of her eyes troubled him strangely.
FORE:"What's that?" she asked."The fools! Wot do they think they're a-doing of? D?an't they know how to put out a fire?"
FORE:"F?ather!" cried Pete, "you can't turn him out lik this."
THREE:Reuben was paralysed with horror. In another minute they would break down his hedgea good young hedge that had cost him a pretty pennyand be all over his roots. For a moment he stood as if fixed to the spot, then suddenly he pulled himself together. At all costs he must save his roots. He could not tackle the women single-handed, so he must go for the madman.
THREE:"Lookee, I'll carry youyou mustn't git wet."His ambition flared up like a damped furnace, and he suddenly saw himself a coward ever to have thought of rest. Boarzell was more to him than any woman in the world. For the sake of one weak woman he was not going to sacrifice all his hopes and dreams and enterprises, the great love of his life.
