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...Everyone is at work in the fields. Who sows not, neither reaps nor harvests. Our peasants are not deserters either in peace or in war. But it is not sufficient to work. It is necessary also to prepare the ground with the necessary fertilizers. It is necessary to sow well and in time...
...neglect since the war; the novels have not the satire of Thackeray's stories of London society, nor the luridness of Dickens tales of the slums; there is nothing but an unwavering view of the human heart, and a pervading sense of the law that we reap what we sow...
...Peterkin has fulfilled the implication of her sketch book with a tremendous painting, a mural in sharp tempera, upon which appears the entire population of an isolated plantation-all the huts, with the doors open, all the hearths, pots, newspapered walls and floor chinks; all the hound dogs, sow pens, butchered hogs, wood piles; all the murmurous lanes and sweaty cotton acres; the giggling creek, Blue Brook, and the threatening, dreamy big river with a sandy island and soaring fish hawks. The figures moving everywhere are dominated by a blue-black giant, April, the foreman and patriarch of the settlement...
Next day the waiter of Lord Birkenhead, one Xavier Coutiniera, bought a mammoth sow. Rich, he prepared to loaf...
Next day the warm Madeira sun shone upon sweltering tourists, upon monkey venders feeding sugar cane to their wares, upon Portuguese loafers strolling about with a sow on a string, upon swart policemen impressively asleep- finally upon the Earl of Birkenhead who walked in a bathrobe, worn toga-fashion, beside a pool into which no one cast ?100. That evening the so dapper gentlemen were merry. What a joker His Lordship was, to be sure! Mr. Shaw was not half so clever. Haw! Pretended he would jump into the pool, haw! Who but His Lordship would even have thought...