Vulgar words in Reels and Spindles - A Story of Mill Life (Page 1)
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Then she seemed to see her mother's gentle face and, conquering the aversion she felt, she pulled out her handkerchief and began to wipe the discolored, ill-shapen lips of the half-wit.
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The library door was open, and it seemed as if the half-wit were trying to force the other backward into the building.
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We both know the story of the place, but our grandfather's enemy took good care to make his tenement comfortable inside, even if it was ugly as sin outside."
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"For the family," was Cleena's watchword, and it had already become the half-wit's.
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"The half-wit?
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Hallam regarded the half-wit critically.
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From that it was rescued by the half-wit and treasured carefully; for to the purpose formed in his mind it would prove a great help.
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Whether purposely or not, it was impossible to say, but in his outward rush the half-wit brushed so rudely past Hallam that he knocked his crutch from his grasp, so that he would have fallen, had not the superintendent caught and steadied the lad to a seat.
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So that when the half-wit finally paused for breath, he felt himself caught by his collar and heard a stern voice demanding:-- "What's this?
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The object was the incipient statesman, and in a second more the half-wit had also reached the kitchen floor and had shut the door behind him.
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All the fairy tales of her beloved Ireland rushed through her mind, and she regarded the half-wit with a new veneration.
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Within a day or two he had had occasion to suspect that the half-wit had some uncanny scheme on hand.
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Recalling this speech, Amy tried to put herself in the half-wit's place, which effort made her pity him the more, yet watch his present manoeuvres none the less closely.
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On such an afternoon, at such an hour, he judged that nobody would be in the mill building save the distant watchman and that indefatigable toiler, Archibald Wingate, with whom was the half-wit's present business.
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The mill owner laid an iron grip upon the half-wit's shoulder, who made no effort to escape; for at last, at last, there had penetrated to his dim intelligence the wide, the awful difference between good and evil.
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In bestowing his gift he had provided to have it in such shape as he knew the half-wit would best comprehend.