On the Heights, Vol. 2 of 3 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from On the Heights, Vol. 2 of 3 Hansei was looking out of a window in a lower room. He held his pipe in both hands, and smoked away in the early morning. Not far from him, a day labourer was cutting a load of wood. Hansei looked quietly at him, nodded when the wood-cleaver made a good stroke, and smiled like a true judge at the awkward being if he was obliged to hack in vain, or to turn over and over some piece of a refractory branch. The grandmother was beginning to carry the hewn wood to the gale side under the eaves, and there to pile it. Every time that she went to and fro, Hansei looked at her, but did stir, at length she said, as she stood before him with an armful of wood: "I say, there!" "Well, " he replied, and puffed on. The grandmother had meant to say by this short appeal, "What's the use of that?Are you only there to look on? Can't you at least pile up the cleft wood." Hansei had understood what lay in the appeal - "I say, there!" and his answer justly conveyed - "Well, I am doing nothing, and that is just my will." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.