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It was Carl Gegenbaur again who solved the difficult problem of tracing the skeleton of the limbs of the Vertebrates to a common type. Few parts of the vertebrate body have undergone such infinitely varied modifications in regard to size, shape, and adaptation of structure as the limbs or extremities; yet we are in a position to reduce them all to the same hereditary standard.
Carl Metz is the foreman of the largest of the Paradise Company's Coal shafts, the "Big Horn." He is in consultation with Mr. Gorman Purdy, the president of the company. Their closing remarks as just quoted are uttered as they stand on the steps leading to the street from the offices on the main square of Wilkes-Barre. The men nod to each other, and separate.
The neighbors' children also visited the cottage that they might hear his last stories, and they all brought with them many little gifts that their mothers had prepared for poor Carl.
"You men are in two different companies?" asked the man behind spectacles. "I'm in B company," nodded Mock. "Wilhelm is in E company." "Then you can take care of two companies of men," Carl went on. "Do to-morrow morning what I'm going to tell you. See these?" The bespectacled one held up two vials that he had taken from a pocket. "Each one of you takes one of these," he went on.
He could not but contrast his present position and prospects with those of a year ago, when, helpless and penniless, he left an unhappy home to make his own way. "What a delightful evening!" said a voice at his side. Turning, Carl saw sitting by him a young man of about thirty, dressed in somewhat pretentious style and wearing eyeglasses. He was tall and thin, and had sandy side whiskers.
He inspected Carl hundreds of times, then told him that the period had come when he ought to attack a city, conquer it, build up a reputation cumulatively; that he needed a contrast to Platonians and Bowery bums and tropical tramps, and even to his beloved engineers.
He is an honest and faithful soul, who can find no joy unless with you; but Carl is not the one who would seek to injure me by word or thought, and therefore I shall not interfere with his sentiments, but allow him to entertain them freely, and, he added, 'you may tell him this at some future time when he may feel troubled on my account." "Did he speak thus, assuredly?"
Haven't I ordered that my father and my brother shall always be accommodated without question?" Bristoll nodded, but made no comment. "Carl, please try once more to make Corbin understand that one of the things I pay him for is to obey orders. Please make it plain beyond cavil that one of my most explicit orders is this: When the Governor comes for money, his job is to begin digging.
She drew a long breath, like a sigh that was too weary for sound, and her plump, placid left hand clutched her panting breast, while her right arm dropped again. All the passion of tragedy seemed to shriek in her hopeless gesture, and her silence was a wail muffled and despairing. Carl stared, twisting his watch-chain with nervous fingers, wanting to flee.
In my pocket I have a warrant for the arrest of certain people, and that being the case " "For my brother! for Carl Sartoris?" Mary gasped. "Oh, is that really so?" "It would be no kindness to conceal the fact," Field said in a gentle tone. "No, I cannot permit you to enter the house. The thing is absolutely inevitable, and you could not possibly prevent it.
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