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From the time of Pythagoras, who first, so far as is known, propounded the general theory of the plurality of worlds, down to our own time, when Brewster and Chalmers on the one hand, and Whewell on the other, have advocated rival theories probably to be both set aside for a theory at once intermediate to and more widely ranging in time and space than either, the aspect of the subject has constantly varied, as new lights have been thrown upon it from different directions.
"They are well matched," he remarked presently. "Mr. Chalmers has a wonderful service," she declared, "but Lord Dorminster has more skill. Oh, bravo!" The set at that moment was finished by a backhanded return from Nigel, which skimmed over the net at a great pace, completely out of reach of the opposing couple. The players strolled across to the seats under the trees.
If now some divine of acknowledged power and position in any branch of the Christian Church were to put forth the statement that 'the writings of Moses do not fix the antiquity of man, he would startle the ear of orthodoxy quite as much, but no more than did Chalmers in the early years of the present century.
"Just as they were in 1914," Chalmers remarked significantly. "More so," Dorminster asserted. "In those days we had our alarmists. Nowadays, they too seem to have gone to sleep. My uncle " "Your uncle was an uncommonly shrewd man," Chalmers interrupted. "I was going to talk about him." "After lunch," Nigel suggested, rising to his feet. "Here come my cousin and some of her tennis friends.
They soon returned, saying it was the adjutant of the rebel general Chalmers, who demanded the surrender of the place. I instructed them to return and give a negative answer, but to delay him as much as possible, so as to give us time for preparation.
Chalmers, with a world-wide reputation for genius, eloquence, and splendid benevolence.
Neither, perhaps, did the world ever possess any orator whose minutest peculiarities of gesture and voice have more power in increasing the effect of what he says whose delivery, in other words, is the first, and the second, and the third excellence of his oratory more truly than is that of Dr. Chalmers.
The next day Chalmers smoothed his ruffled feelings by piling on three goals against the Fifth, who sneaked off the Acres five goals to the bad. This was the first time for ages that Biffen's had tasted blood, and the news of the victory staggered others besides the victims. There was quite a flutter among the house captains, and Acton, by the way, had no more mutinies.
Once he had been frozen out of a stock company; this time he had absolute control, and he found great pleasure in exercising it, though against Chalmers' protest.
Her brown eyes filled with tears as she kissed Esther's cheek. There was no sign of the doctor when Esther slowly descended to the entrance hall. She would have liked to slip away by herself, but it was too late, Chalmers had just placed her luggage on the back of the doctor's car; she met him coming back.
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