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What freak of nature, he wondered, had been responsible for so alien an offspring to this ruthless builder? And what under heaven had the two in common except the blood that ran in both their veins? Peter C. Frome, who had followed his brother-in-law into the room, introduced the young man to the railroad king. The great man's grip drove the blood from Farnum's hand.
When it comes from alien sources, and is under forced pressure, the costs are almost sure to be excessively high. This brings us face to face with one of the most important problems facing mankind at the present moment.
What stupendous infatuation, what disastrous ascendency of the Power of Darkness, that this energy should have been sent forth to pervade all parts of the world in quest of objects, to inspirit and accomplish innumerable projects, political and military, and to lavish itself, even to exhaustion and fainting at its vital source, on every alien interest; while here at home, so large a part of the social body was in a moral and intellectual sense dying and putrefying over the land.
Clearly they resented his presence in their lecture rooms and laboratories. Clearly they felt that he did not belong there, studying medicine. From the first they had let him know unmistakably that he was unwelcome, an intruder in their midst, the first member of an alien race ever to try to earn the insignia of a physician of Hospital Earth. And now, Dal knew he had failed after all.
New York had met most of their ideals. They were glad it was on American soil and in the nation's metropolis; but, after all, it remained alien and mysterious, of a rank with Paris and London the gateway city of the nation, where the Old World meets and mingles with the New.
He was, properly speaking, my bull; I did not care if I had to spend three days mending our home gates and other's alien fences. Yes, it was a fine thing to gallop through that warm, bright, Californian air after El Toro, with the brown hills on either side and its patches of green vineyard brightening daily. It was freedom after the toil of axle-greasing and the slow work with sheep.
The grace, the spell, was gone he was alone and miserable! and amid the gaiety, the materialism, the selfish vice of the place he had moved for days, an alien and an enemy, the love within him turning to hate. So now his mortal pain revenged itself. They would be beaten this depraved and enervated people! and his feverish heart rejoiced. But Elise? His lips quivered.
"They would that Wachita should bring them nearer to where my lord is, that they might see him when he knew it not." Elijah glanced moodily at his wife, with the half suspicion with which he still regarded her alien character. "Then let Wachita go back to the squaws and old women, and let her hide herself with them until the wangee strangers are gone," he said curtly. "I have spoken. Go!"
But the more he thought of all her strange instincts and modes of being, the more he became convinced that whatever alien impulse swayed her will and modulated or diverted or displaced her affections came from some impression that reached far back into the past, before the days when the faithful Old Sophy had rocked her in the cradle.
The little room which had looked so alien when she came to it six years ago had become a home. She went to the window and kissed the pane through which she had learned to see so much. Then she seized up the bundle and went quickly out, locking the door behind her, and taking the key with her. "I am going away for a time, but I shall come back," she said to the cobbler's wife on the same landing.
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