Part 55 (2/2)

Here! rouse up your d----dthis track

I'll see that you're escorted If you loose-out before you reach the main road, I shall certainly prosecute you Once there, I'll take care you don't trespass again during this trip Coht to order himself lowly and reverently to all his betters; yet there was deeper pathos in the rude dignity of his reply than could have attended servility

”It s this way, Mr Magoot here in a sneakin' way

I feel it, Mr Magomery; by (sheol) I do Still, I'm here now Well, if I tackle this track out to the main road, there's three o' them bullocks'll drop in yoke before I fetch the station Would you like to see the bones layin' aside this track, every time you drive past? I bet you what you like, you'd be sorry when your temper is over Then we'll say I'oin' to fetch Nalrooka? Not possible, the way I'oomery,” said I; ”I wish to heaven that you were under one-tenth of the obligation to ht venture to speak in this case But the remembrance of so es reat deal in what Priestley says; s it home to me; and I sympathise with him, rather than with you

Of course the matter rests entirely in your hands; but to ht of a responsibility It is noble to have a squatter's strength, but tyrannous to use it like a squatter”

Soomery's sunburnt face; and I could see that the battle was over

But another was iy

Folkestone had calnored hty immobility had still sustained him at such an altitude as to render Priestley, as well as myself, invisible even to bird's eye view

But the se, well-fed body, could n't let it pass at that On lass in his eye, and, with a degress of rudeness which I have never seen equalled in a navvies' ca Then the lens dropped from his eye, and he turned to his coomery?” he asked

The squatter looked plainly displeased He was as proud as his guest, but in a different way Folkestone, being a gentlee of God by caste and culture; and to these he added a fatal self-consciousness Don't takethat caste and culture could possibly havethat these had been powerless to avert the race of God and the flunkeyisentleman, but only by virtue of his position So that, for instance, Priestley's personal fac-si as a well-to-do squatter, would have been received on equal teromery; whereas, Folkestone's disdain would have been scarcely lessened The relative entle to his own fallen nature

”Pardonthat you Australians have queer ways ofhis eyebrows, and speaking with the accent--or rather, absence of accent--which, in an Englishrant, by appearance, and probably not overburdened with honesty, is found trespassing on your property; then this individual--by Gad, I feel curious to knoho our learned brother for the defence is--bandies words with you on the other fellow's behalf I confess I rather like his style I expected to hear him address you as 'old boy,' or 'my dear fellow,' or by soomery! but this phase of colonial life is new to me Placed in your position (if ), I shouldscoundrel; partly as a tonic to hihtly understand, you have the power to punish, by fine or imprisonment, any trespass on your sheep-walks You don't exercise your prerogative, you say? By Gad, you'll have to exercise it, or, letthorns for your children to reap

Here, I should iine, is an excellent opportunity for vindication of your rights as a land owner”

This reasoning would n't have affected Montgohts in the current case, had not Priestley been too industrious to notice the opening avenue of escape But to the bullock driver's troubled s of the stockyard of Fate, and that Folkestone was lending a willing hand to hurroo hinanied by some supposed insult sustained by me on his behalf

Just three words of comment here Built into the moral structure of each earthly probationer is a therraduated independently; and it is never safe to heat the individual to the boiling-point of his register You never kno far up the scale this point is, unless you are very familiar with the particular thermometer under experiment

Romeo, for instance, pacific by nature, and self-schooled to forbearance by the second-strongest of inspirations, meets deadly public insult by the softest of answers--'calm, dishonourable, vile sub of that friend touches Romeo's 212Fahrenheit--then! 'Away to heaven, respective lenity, and fire-eyed fury be my conduct now!' Whereupon, Tybalt, the tamperer, is scalded to death

In Ida, as we have seen, the insinuated aspersion of unchastity touched 100Centigrade; and the experinity, fro steam So, in Priestley, the wanton hostility of Folkestone touched 80Reau the water, and s the oith ashes

One moment more, please Nations, kindreds, and peoples are individuals in -point is the one thing thatCowper puts on paper a fine breezy English contempt for the submissiveness and ultra-royalism of the pre-Revolutionary French--and lives to wonder at the course of events

Macaulay's diction rolls like the swelling of Jordan, as he expatiates on the absolute subserviency, the settled incapacity for resistance, of the Bengalee--till presently the Mutiny (a near thing, in tidely different senses, and confined to the Bengalee troops) shakes his credit

So it has ever been, and ever shall be But for that ingrained endowo have ceased to inhabit this planet

When Priestley came to the boil, all considerations of expediency, all natural love of peace and fear of the wrath to come, all solicitude for wife and children, vanished froee in which he clothed his one reht

”An' who are you?” he thundered, advancing toward the buggy ”A loafer!-- no better!--an' you oard ive him credit But you! Cr-r-ripes! if I had you a couple o' hundredoff o' your tail!”

Folkestone, his head canted to a listening angle, noted with a half-amused, half-tired sht coat, and laid it across the back of the buggy seat

”I will thuomery,” said he, and he certainly meant it

Priestley was a man of nine stone