FORE:Far away at Cheat Land, Alice Jury watched them fall¡ªAlice Jury five years older than when she had struggled with Boarzell for Reuben before he married Rose. Her parents thought he had treated her badly, even though they did not know of the evening when she had humbled herself to plead for her happiness and his. She remembered that moment uneasily¡ªit hurt her pride. But she could not regret having used her most desperate effort to win him, and she felt sure that he had understood her motive and realised that it was for him as well as for her that she had spoken."No¡ªI d?an't say it. I did write 'em. But it's all your fault that I did¡ªso you've no right to miscall me."
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FORE:Naomi had been taken back to Odiam, when Harry, still motionless and apparently dead, was lifted on a gate, and borne away. Dark curds of smoke drifted among the willows, and the acrid smell of powder clung to the hillside like an evil ghost. The place where Harry had lain was marked by charred and trampled grass, and a great pool of blood was sinking into the ground ... it seemed to Reuben, as he turned shudderingly away, as if Boarzell were drinking it up¡ªeagerly, greedily, as a thirsty land drinks up its first watering.
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FORE:"My lord, you will give proper instructions," resumed Isabella, in a tone that seemed to imply she expected the most rigorous measures to be adopted.
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FORE:But Tilly interrupted him. Putting her arm round the terrified boy's shoulders, she led him through the door."Wot've you bin crying for?" he asked as he slid a chair close to hers. He wondered if the humiliation of Odiam had at last come to mean to her a little of what it meant to him.
FORE:They did not murmur, for they had known no different life. They had never, like other girls, wandered with bevies of young people through the lanes at dusk, or felt in the twilight a man's hand grope for theirs. They had not had suitors to visit them on Sundays, to sit very stiff and straight in the parlour, and pass decorous remarks about the weather all the while their eyes were eating up a little figure from toe to hair.
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FORE:He dipped his finger into the pan, and sucked it.
FORE:"And if he has," returned the dusty-foot, "he cannot have a greater cause. It is all very well for the great,¡ªit looks well upon them; and even the decent chapman and yeomen get little harm by it: but for the poor man to be proud; to have the swelling heart and the burning cheek¡ªoh! it is a curse!" He raised his voice as he spoke, and then sinking it to a whisper, added¡ª"and if it is a sin, surely it has its punishment."
