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I could not conceive such a strange combination of accidents as should make the necessity of acting increase gradually upon us as the means of doing so were taken from us.
Such an unusual combination of faculties defined a man broader and more profound than his broad achievement one of the rare personalities in our Art, the most this exponent that sculpture has known in this land.
The wise combination of the two, gives us that tangle of motive, act and circumstance which makes up human existence. With regard to the morals of the story, a word may here be said, having all Fielding's fiction in mind.
Gee, but she can give you a blow with her left across the ear that will make you think Jeffries has put on a shirt-waist, and a turquoise ring, and she and I are going to form a combination and make a barrel of money. Say, Aunt Almira has got so she can kick clear up to the gas jet, and she wants to play Juliet. I am going to play Jeffries to her Juliet."
"He could never go back on his word!" she declared. "The Sparrow is a curious combination of the crook chivalrous and philanthropic as you already know." "But surely, he wouldn't let us down?" Benton paused. He was thinking deeply. A certain fact had suddenly occurred to him. "If he does, then we must, I suppose, do our best to expose him.
"When I saw the fellow, bending over my safe," said Mr. Merkel, "it appeared to me he was only trying to work the combination. I have a hard job, myself, remembering how to do it, account of the safe being a new one. And I was so surprised, at first, that I just stood there, like a locoed steer, watching him. Then I let out a yell, told him to throw his hands up, and things began to happen."
This little scene is not only charming and touching, it is very significant, suggesting a combination of such qualities as are not always found united: sovereign good sense and readiness, blending with quick, artless feeling that sought no disguise such feeling as again betrayed itself when on her ensuing proclamation the new Sovereign had to meet her people face to face, and stood before them at her palace window, composed but sad, the tears running unchecked down her fair pale face.
One of the passenger prisoners the hero of the kerosene porridge was known among us as the "hot-air merchant." This was simple enough, but when we said he also suffered from cold feet, the Spanish Captain admitted defeat. Such a contradictory combination seemed inconceivable. "If a man were full of hot air, how could he have cold feet?" he said.
I said yes, just to stop his pestering; and after a couple of drinks off of the sideboard he went away. That evening I locked myself in the store, took the money out of the safe, and carried it up to the attic where I hid it under an old mattress. I smeared a little varnish around the combination lock with a rag, and next day I looked for finger marks, but there weren't none.
It would have been all prodigious if he had not already, with Charlotte's aid, so very considerably lived into it it would have been all indescribably remarkable, this fact that, with wonderful causes for it so operating on the surface, nobody else, as yet, in the combination, seemed estranged from anybody. If Mrs.
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