![]() ![]() Their expression was one of dogged defiance, and their gaze was fixed with such scowling intensity upon the void space before them that I involuntarily glanced behind me to see what they were looking at. The faces were coarse and hard in outline and bristled with unkempt beards. The arms of the other two were folded on their breasts. ![]() The central figure, with the right hand extended, palm outward, was pointing to the discarded tools. Before them, on the ground, lay a pair of shovels and a pickaxe. ![]() They were bareheaded, and their coarse-textured shirts, rolled above the elbow and open at the breast, showed the sinewy arms and chest. Shoulder to shoulder, as if rallied to resist assault, were three figures of men in the garb of the laboring class of my time. Let me tell you, readers of the twentieth century, what I saw up there on the pedestal, and you will recognize the world-famous group. "They are contemporaries of yours who were making a good deal of disturbance in your day."īut, indeed, it had only been as an involuntary expression of surprise that I had questioned what the figures stood for. ![]() "You ought to know if any one," said the doctor. Presently, as we were crossing Boston Common, absorbed in conversation, a shadow fell athwart the way, and looking up, I saw towering above us a sculptured group of heroic size. Previous Chapter Next Chapter Chapter XXV. ![]()
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