surpass or equal, his bowels yearned over the man.

As for Christopher, he looked straight forward, and said not a word till
they cleared the town; but when he saw the vast flowery vale, and the
far-off violet hills, like Scotland glorified, he turned to Dick with
an ineffable expression of sweetness and good fellowship, and said, "Oh,
beautiful! We'll hunt the past together."

"We--will--SO," said Dick, with a sturdy and indeed almost a stern
resolution.

Now, this he said, not that he cared for the past, nor intended to waste
the present by going upon its predecessor's trail; but he had come to a
resolution--full three minutes ago--to humor his companion to the top
of his bent, and say "Yes" with hypocritical vigor to everything not
directly and immediately destructive to him and his.

The next moment they turned a corner and came upon the rest of their
party, hitherto hidden by the apricot hedge and a turning in the road.
A blue-black Kafir, with two yellow Hottentot drivers, man and boy, was
harnessing, in the most primitive mode, four horses on to the six oxen
attached to the wagon; and the horses were flattening their ears,
and otherwise resenting the incongruity. Meantime a fourth figure, a
colossal young Kafir woman, looked on superior with folded arms, like a
sable Juno looking down with that absolute composure upon the struggles
of man and other animals, which Lucretius and his master Epicurus
assigned to the Divine nature. Without jesting, the grandeur, majesty,
and repose of this figure were unsurpassable in nature, and such as have
vanished from sculpture two thousand years and more.