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He pleaded with New York Federalists not to commit the fatal blunder of endorsing Burr in caucus, and he finally won his point; but he could not prevent his partisans from supporting Burr at the polls. The defeat of Burr dashed the hopes of the Federalists of New England; the bubble of a Northern Confederacy vanished.
I must run now over to Pink's, and tell her all the wonderful things that have happened, and see how poor Bubble is."
Yet as he ran down the road to lunch with Lucia he was conscious that she was likely to stand, an angel perhaps, but certainly one with a flaming sword, between him and all the interests of the new life which was undoubtedly beginning to bubble in Riseholme, and to which Georgie found it so pleasant to take his little mug, and have it filled with exhilarating liquid.
The bubble had been capable of exactly two actions. It could reflect detector-pulses. In doing so, it had impersonated a giant fighting ship, member of an irresistible fleet. It could also destroy itself. In so doing, it impersonated a giant fighting ship one of a fleet going into overdrive.
What a delicate and rare and gracious art is the art of conversation! With what a dexterity and skill the bubble of speech must be maneuvered if mind is to meet and mingle with mind. There is no sadder disappointment than to realize that a conversation has been a complete failure.
The mouth of the crater uttered a loud rolling bellow, which was followed by an immense bubble of vapour, bursting at the surface of the lava with a loud thundering report. The whole surface of the lava, reduced to glowing splinters, was then tossed into the air. "The heat struck our faces forcibly; while a flaming sheaf rose right into the air, and fell back in a shower of fire all around.
Bunch had just tied his Bubble to a tree at the track and was in the act of giving it a long cool drink of gasolene and some cracked oats, when Flash Harvey bore down on us and made a touch for the turn-out. "Say, Bunch!" chirped Flash, "lend me the choo-choo for half an hour, will you?
The sun was just setting; the bubble clouds were pink, and windows flashed fire. The rattle of the machine-gun suddenly stopped, and there was a moment's silence when the only sound in the whole world was the clatter of the wood-cart turning the corner.
A few months later, at the behest of our Government, the French arms were withdrawn, the bubble of Mexican Empire vanished, and the ill-fated Maximilian had bravely met his tragic end. Thenceforth, a resident but no longer a citizen of the land that had given him birth, William M. Gwin, to the end of his life, bore the high sounding but empty title of "Duke of Sonora."
It is not much short of three centuries since those lines were written, but they seem still to bubble with a scorn which may indeed be called immortal. 'Sold cheap what is most dear. There, compressed in half a line, is the whole case against an actor's calling. But it may be said Shakespeare was but a poor actor.
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