Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:13:20 +0800
going to get out of it again. The Dative case is but an ornamental folly --
sentence, clothed with an awful and unsuspected power, and crumbles theground from under me. For instance, my book inquires after a certain bird --(it is always inquiring after things which are of no sort of no consequenceto anybody): Where is the bird? Now the answer to this question --
had added in the transparent self-justification of selfish youth, And Ill pay it back to him every cent. At this Jehiel had said shortly, By the time you can pay it back what Ill need most will be a tombstone. Git a big one sos to keep me down there quiet.
Where should he go? He was dazed by the unlimited possibilities before him. To Boston first, as the nearest seaport. He had taken the trip in his mind so many times that he knew the exact minute when the train would cross the state line and he would be really escaped from the net which had bound him all his life. From Boston to Jamaica as the nearest place that was quite, quite different from Vermont. He had no desire to see Europe or England. Life there was too much like what he had known. He wanted to be in a country where nothing should remind him of his past. From Jamaica where? His stiff old fingers painfully traced out a steamship line to the Isthmus and thence to Colombia. He knew nothing about that country. All the better. It would be the more foreign. Only this he knew, that nobody in that tropical country farmed it, and that was where he wanted to go. From Colombia around the Cape to Argentina. He was aghast at the cost, but instantly decided that he would go steerage. There would be more
