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The Journeyman .
Various members of his Family.
The Devotee .
The Old Campaigner .
Two Processions , and an Army on the march.
The Householder .
The porch of the almshouse of St. Just. Palings and clipped box-trees screen it from the highroad that runs through the village; and the thatched cottage of the Householder, over the way, is its nearest neighbor.
( folding his withered old hands ).
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[The Journeyman , with his tools slung across his shoulder, comes singing along the highway.]
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[Angry voices come across from the Householder's dooryard. A middle-aged woman and a grown girl are seen in violent altercation. A number of young boys, a second brood apparently, tug with inimical intent at the girl's ankles and elbows.]
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[The Householder leaves.]
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[A kind of wailing chant is heard a little distance down the roadway. It is immediately echoed, with a difference, from the opposite direction, and two processions of suppliants advance and meet in the highway before the almshouse. The leader of one procession wears a broad cloak of embroidered yellow silk; the leader of the other wears a long, close black coat. The one procession depends chiefly upon a big purple banner; the other upon a multitude of little black books. The one is joined by the Householder and his daughter; the other by the Householder's wife.]
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( viewing one of the processions with an angry disgust ).
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[The people of the two processions have attacked one another with staves. Villagers flock out of the neighboring cottages, and many brethren issue from the almshouse itself, while others, in various stages of disability, look out through its windows. All immediately take sides, as prompted by prejudice, association, early education. The Devotee enters into the struggle with a hearty good will, while the Campaigner , beating upon his bench with his crutch, encourages both sides with his shrill crow. The Householder is belabored by his own wife, whose clothing, in turn, is torn by her enraged stepdaughter.]
( shouting back to his associates from the edge of the press ).
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( coming nearer ).
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( sinking upon his knees and beginning a voluble prayer in the dust of the roadway ).
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( rising, after many phrases of passionate pleading ).
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( coming back with a bleeding face ).
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[The fight in the roadway is resumed. The Householder and the Devotee , with no further heed to the advancing host, reënter the struggle. The Householder is beaten by his wife's brother, and jeered by his own children.]
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( hesitating ).
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( in response to approaching sounds ).
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[The struggle of the village zealots is brought to an end by the passage of the first division of the Army. Many hundreds on foot, splashed with mud, stiffened with sweat, swathed in bandages, famished with hunger. Others limp alongside an extended ambulance-train, and others still, in various stages of dilapidation and disability, straggle here and there over the borders of the wide roadway.]
( with reproach, to the returning Devotee ).
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[The passage of an artillery-train. Hungry and exhausted horses stumble along, dragging miry and disabled gun-carriages. The men astride throw famished scowls in the direction of storehouses and barnyards.]
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[Other regiments of infantry, embarrassed by a great number of sick, disabled and wounded. A group of officers who pick their way along mechanically, with lax bridles and downcast eyes. The Householder and his wife are seen in another altercation upon their doorstep.]
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[The foot-soldiers, attracted by the defensive posture of the Householder's wife, begin to scale the wall and to trample up through the garden toward the doorstep. Others of their number give a like attention to neighboring houses, which the people of the two broken processions run to protect; a few heads even look over the almshouse palings.]
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[A squadron of cavalry moves past slowly. Among them is the Householder's eldest son.]
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[Several of the horsemen dismount, and join the foot-soldiers in their raid on cottage and barnyard. The Householder's son leads the way.]
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( hastening across ).
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[A long pause, during which the Journeyman bestows upon the other three a close and studious regard.]
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( indignant ).
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[They rise, expressing varying degrees of dread, anger and repugnance, and make as if to retire within the doorway.]
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( picking up his tools preparatory to departure ).
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[He goes.]