The Stonecutter of Lisbon Author:William H. Peck Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: " I did it for the lady ! And there are others !" His clear, powerful voice rings like a trumpet from one end of the great yard to the other, and then there i... more »s a wild shout of hearty applause in reply. The three hundred enemies have become three hundred friends. They are poor, unlettered workmen, rude and unpolished in the specious teachings of rank and wealth, but they know what is right and noble and just as well as the highest, and regard these things more sacred than do those who look down upon them. In their just hate against the Count they had for a moment forgot that if he perished, others must perish with him. Indeed, they had gazed only at the Count, heedless of the driver, the footman, and the two others. They remember them now, and they shout and toss up their hats in honor of Stbnio, and in a moment a great unanimous cry goes up, after a hoarse voice has shouted: " Long live Lady Hilda, the friend of the poor !" CHAPTER III. THE SUDDEN OUTBREAK OF THE WORKMEN. Having changed his three hundred enemies to three hundred friends, and thereby unconsciously increased the hatred of Diego Alva, Stonio hastened toward the carriage, not to receive the well-merited thanks of those whose Jives he had saved, but to recover his tools—his mallet and chisel. " Here, my man," cried the Count, in a voice still tremulous from fright, " open this door so that I may leave the carriage." The vehicle was still violently swaying about from the fierce struggles of the two prostrate living horses in their attempts to regain their feet, and there was stillgreat danger that it might be dragged around, should they succeed, and be toppled into the quarry. The driver and footman were hurriedly scrambling from their seats, and the whole scene was one of confusion—the pol...« less