It was quite dark now. The hulk of Boarzell loomed black behind the struggle, its fir crown standing out against a great wall of starless sky. Then suddenly something began to blazeno one seemed to know what, for it was behind the crowd; but it roared and crackled, and sparks and great burning strands flew out from it, threatening house and besiegers alike with destruction.
But the disciple of Anne Bardon could aspire to be master among other men. Richard began to startle and amuse his family by strange new ways. He took to washing his neck every morning, and neatly combed his hair. He cut up an old shirt into pocket-handkerchiefs. He began to model his speech on Miss Bardon'sclipping it, and purging it ridiculously. Reuben would roar with laughter."A minister of the Lord," repeated with some severity the man in black, "of the brotherhood named Ebenezer.""Ben, I swear I'm your true wife."
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"It ?un't nonsense. I always know when his fits are coming on because he's tired and can't work pr?aperly. He was like that to-day. And youyou drove him out.""F?ather ?un't got naunhaven't you heard? He made his claim, and then they asked to see the title-deeds, and it turned out as how he hadn't got no common rights at allleastways so the lawyers said.""I'll have a good grain growing there in five yeard?an't you go doubting it. The ground wants working, that's all. And as fur not wanting the farm no bigger, that wur f?ather's ideaOdiam's mine now."The boys told him. Reuben listened in silence save for one ejaculation of "the dirty bitch!"