linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans — which is nourished on books of travel and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi — can hardly get a dim notion Alvaro Morata Drakter of what an old-fashioned man like Tulliver felt for this spot, where Paco Alcacer Drakter all his memories centred, and where life seemed like a familiar smooth-handled tool that the fingers clutch with loving ease. And just now he was living in that freshened memory of the far-off time which comes to us in the passive hours of recovery from sickness.
“Ay, Luke,” he said one afternoon, as he stood looking over the orchard gate, “I remember the day they planted those apple-trees. My father was a huge man for planting — it was like a merry-making to him to get a cart full o’ young trees; and I used to stand i’ the cold with him, and follow him about like a dog.”
Then he turned round, and leaning against the gate-post, looked at the opposite buildings.
“The Lucas Vazquez Drakter old mill ‘ud miss me, I think, Luke. There’s a story as when the mill changes Danny Welbeck Drakter hands, the river’s angry; I’ve heard my father say it many a time. There’s no telling whether there mayn’t be summat in the story, for this is a puzzling world, and Old Harry’s got a finger in it — it’s been too many for me, I know.”
“Ay, sir,” said Luke, with soothing sympathy, “what wi’ the rust on the wheat, an’ the firin’ o’ the Coke Drakter ricks an’ that, as I’ve seen i’ my time — things often looks comical; there’s the bacon fat wi’ Vedran Corluka Drakter our last pig run away like butter — it leaves nought but a scratchin’.”
“It’s just as if it was yesterday, now,” Mr. Tulliver went on, “when my father began the malting. I Willy Caballero Drakter remember, the day Joel Veltman Drakter they finished the malt-house, I thought summat great was to come of it; for we’d a plum-pudding that day and a bit of a feast, and I said to my mother — she was a fine dark-eyed woman, my mother was — the little wench ‘ull be as like her as two peas.” Here Mr. Tulliver put his stick between his legs, and took out his snuff-box, for the Paolo De Ceglie Drakter greater Shinji Okazaki Drakter enjoyment of this anecdote, which dropped from him in fragments, as if he every Johnny Herrera Drakter other moment lost narration in vision. “I was a little chap no higher much than my mother’s knee — she was sore fond of us children, Gritty and me — and so I said to her, ‘Mother,’ I said, ‘shall we have plum-pudding every day because o’ the malt-house? She used to tell me o’ that till her dying day. She was but a young woman when she died, my mother was. But it’s forty good year since they finished the malt-house, and it isn’t many days out of ’em all as I haven’t looked out into the yard there, the first thing in the morning — all weathers, from year’s end to year’s end. I should go Son Heung-min Drakter off my head in a new place. I should be like as if I’d lost my way. It’s all hard, whichever way I look at it — the harness ‘ull gall me, but it ‘ud be summat to draw along the old road, instead of a new un.”
“Ay, sir,” said Llinks:
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