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And there she was, unconscious of him, doing her gay clog dance. When she stopped, three or four of the more daring youths urged her, seizing her by the hands and arms, to do something else. Someone cleared a table and someone else picked her up and put her on it. She did still other dances. Someone cried, "Hey, Kenny, do you need the red dress?" So this was his temporary sweetheart.
And the tendency to satisfy this appetite, far from being sinful, is wholly in keeping with the divine plan, and is necessary for a fulsome benefiting of the nourishment we take. On the other hand, the digestive organism of the body is such a delicate and finely adjusted piece of mechanism that any excess is liable to clog its workings and put it out of order. It is made for sufficiency alone.
"I beg your pardon, ma'am," he said, "but the little one and I have met before: I live in the house, having the honour to be the youngest of your father's clerks. If you will allow me, I will carry the child. She looks tired!" Miss Shotover was glad enough to be relieved of her clog, and gave smiling consent.
When one's body is not rested, nature works just as hard, but the tired body through its various forms of tension that impede the circulation, prevent the healthy absorption of food and oxygen, and clog the way so that impurities cannot be carried off interferes with nature's work and thus makes it impossible for her to keep the machine well oiled.
At the same time of course, with their affectation of knowing better when it was too late and their over-wise impracticabilities, they proved a perpetual clog to those who were acting; their daily work consisted in criticizing, ridiculing, and bemoaning every occurrence great and small, and in unnerving and discouraging the multitude by their own sluggishness and hopelessness. The Ultras
Thrackles, staring over the side, let out a mighty roar. "Steerage way," he shouted, and executed an awkward clog dance on the reeling deck. She moved forward, there was no doubt of that, for gradually we were eating toward the wind but we made considerable leeway as well. Handy Solomon, taut as the weather rigging, took his little advantages one by one like precious gifts.
The instinct of the majority is right, but it is defective in will and it is subservient to base leadership, while its power for good is negatived by the persistence of a mass of formulae that, under radically changed conditions, have ceased to be beneficient, or even true, and have become a clog and a stumbling block.
The child said that was not its way home. I said, 'Yes, my dear, it is; I'll show you the way home. The child had a little necklace on of gold beads, and I had my eye upon that, and in the dark of the alley I stooped, pretending to mend the child's clog that was loose, and took off her necklace, and the child never felt it, and so led the child on again.
The troop officer passed us on, something doubting, as I suspected. But we were riding in the right direction, and he was unwilling to clog himself with a pair of plain country gentlemen held in leash as prisoners. A few miles farther down the road the same brace of lies got us safely through the loosely drawn vedette line, and by evening we were in sight of our goal.
Some ten weeks later, towards the end of October, society knew that the Home Secretary and Lady Kitty had started for Italy bound first of all for Venice. It was said that Lady Kitty was a wreck, and that it was doubtful whether she would ever recover the sudden and tragic death of her only child. "Myself, arch-traitor to myself; My hollowest friend, my deadliest foe, My clog whatever road I go."
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