id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt caine-deemster-1887 caine caine-deemster-1887 1887 .txt text/plain 153206 7600 86 There a crowd had already gathered, strong men in blue pilots, old men in sheepskin coats, women with their short blue camblet gowns tucked over their linen caps, boys and girls on every side, all coming and going like shadows in the mist. A line of older men, with their hands in their pockets, were propped against the castle wall; and a young woman from Ballasalla, reputed to be a prophetess, was standing on the steps of the cross, and calling on the careless to take note that, while they cursed and swore and forgot their Maker, six men not twenty yards away were on the brink of their graves. cache/caine-deemster-1887.txt txt/caine-deemster-1887.txt