I nodded sagely, ``Most likely,'' and the Blight was thrilled. They might have been squirrel-hunters most innocent, but the Blight had heard much talk of moonshine stills and mountain feuds and the men who run them and I took the risk of denying her nothing. Up and up we went, those two mules swaying from side to side with a motion little short of elephantine and, by and by, the Blight called out:英文原著 · 《A Knight of the Cumberland》
That night Marston and the Blight sat under the vines on the porch until the late moon rose over Wallens Ridge, and, when bedtime came, the Blight said impatiently that she did not want to go home. She had to go, however, next day, but on the next Fourth of July she would surely come again; and, as the young engineer mounted his horse and set his face toward Black Mountain, I knew that until that day, for him, a blight would still be in the hills.英文原著 · 《A Knight of the Cumberland》
I was taking them, according to promise, where the feet of other women than mountaineers had never trod--beyond the crest of the Big Black--to the waters of the Cumberland--the lair of moonshiner and feudsman, where is yet pocketed a civilization that, elsewhere, is long ago gone. This had been a pet dream of the Blight's for a long time, and now the dream was coming true. The Blight was in the hills.英文原著 · 《A Knight of the Cumberland》
``Oh,'' he said, ``how do you do?'' and he turned to his prisoner, but the panting sergeant and another policeman-- also a volunteer--were already lifting him to his feet. I introduced the boy and the Blight then, and for the first time in my life I saw the Blight--shaken. Round- eyed, she merely gazed at him.英文原著 · 《A Knight of the Cumberland》
So up we went past Bee Rock, Preacher's Creek and Little Looney, past the mines where high on a ``tipple'' stood the young engineer looking down at us, and looking after the Blight as we passed on into a dim rocky avenue walled on each side with rhododendrons. I waved at him and shook my head--we would see him coming back. Beyond a deserted log- cabin we turned up a spur of the mountain. Around a clump of bushes we came on a gray-bearded mountaineer holding his horse by the bridle and from a covert high above two more men appeared with Winchesters. The Blight breathed forth an awed whisper:英文原著 · 《A Knight of the Cumberland》
``That's Mart up there--my friend and yours,'' said Marston to the Blight. ``I'm rather glad I didn't meet you on the other side of the mountain--that's `the Wild Dog.' '' The Blight looked incredulous, but Marston knew the man and knew the horse.英文原著 · 《A Knight of the Cumberland》
Well, I don't think I made a blight of difference, but let's hold on to that fiction.美剧 · 《Downton Abbey》