. The Cornish fishermen's watch-night, and other stories . THE MAN THAT EVERYTHINGWENT %^^^ tf- TELL you, said poor Ned,angrily, everything has goneagainst me all my life I had had other peopleschances I should have been adifferent sort of a man, and youwouldnt have had to comelooking me up here. But I-=^ never had a chance, and so whats the use of talking? Ned Bean was one of my neighbours ; butat this time he was lodged in the jail of thenext town—and dear lodgings they werelikely to prove to him. He was an old man :his scanty white hair, his rough, imshornchin, his haggard
. The Cornish fishermen's watch-night, and other stories . THE MAN THAT EVERYTHINGWENT %^^^ tf- TELL you, said poor Ned,angrily, everything has goneagainst me all my life I had had other peopleschances I should have been adifferent sort of a man, and youwouldnt have had to comelooking me up here. But I-=^ never had a chance, and so whats the use of talking? Ned Bean was one of my neighbours ; butat this time he was lodged in the jail of thenext town—and dear lodgings they werelikely to prove to him. He was an old man :his scanty white hair, his rough, imshornchin, his haggard, thin face, now flushed 40 The Man that eve7ythi7ig went agamst, with momentary excitement, his roughcountrymans garb, dirty and neglected—allthis and more made him an object for volcano of wrath was pent tip in that oldmans bosom, striving for vent. He had been committed only a few daysbefore for brutally misusing his poor old wife—half killing her, in fact, in a fit of un-governed fury. The case was too serious tobe disposed of by the magistrate beforewhom he had been at firs
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