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But of course it would be absurd to believe that any one with unlimited courage and elbow grease could win at fiction, lacking all aptitude for it. They fail, and shall always fail. Yet it is better to have strived and failed, than never to have tried at all. Why? For the good of their artists' consciences, in the first place.
"'Perhaps he's overdrawn, I said. "'It's possible, sir, said the landlord. "Well, I went down to supper, full of the poor chap's story, and found him at the table walking into a hefty veal-and-ham pie, and with a bottle of wine at his elbow. "'Come on, he says, 'or you'll be too late. "We went at it and made a good meal, and he accepted one of my cigars.
On that enormous mass of blackness there was not a gleam to be seen, not a sound to be heard. It was gliding irresistibly towards us and yet seemed already within reach of the hand. I saw the vague figures of the watch grouped in the waist, gazing in awed silence. "Are you going on, sir?" inquired an unsteady voice at my elbow. I ignored it. I had to go on. "Keep her full. Don't check her way.
I could not leave off kissing it, for I thought that I had never in my life touched so soft, so delicate a hand. But what bliss when she begged for mine! I quickly thrust my arm through the hole, so that she could fasten her lips to the bend of the elbow. How many sweet liberties my hand ventured to take!
A smile half sardonic grew in the features of Uncle Sebastian as he stood looking down at him. The youth, unconscious of the presence of another, kept on idly tossing the pebbles, recumbent on one elbow. His long sinewy legs were incased in slick jean trousers of stovepipe lines and stiffness. He wore no coat.
Then, dimly conscious that their last words had revealed the difference of their temperaments and creeds, they stared at one another. "No," said Courtier, "I never will believe that people can be so mean!" "Until they are." "Anyway, though we get at it in different ways, we agree." Miltoun leaned his elbow on the mantelpiece, and shading his face with his hand, said: "You know her story.
After a great deal of argument from the chief engineer, and the firm which furnished the pump, both making a strong plea for a change in the piping, the company accepted the inevitable, and the dotted portion shows the present layout. The elbow M was removed, and a tee put in its place to which the piping D was connected.
They threw these relics on the bed and chose one of them on which the word "Father" was written. They opened and read it. It was one of those old-fashioned letters which one finds in old family desk drawers, those epistles which smell of another century. The judge, resting his elbow on the bed, was listening with his eyes fastened on his mother. The motionless body seemed happy.
Down the slope he came running; and stopped in slack-jawed amaze at the tableau in front of him. On the bank hopped and wriggled a woman in vivid garments, a woman who waved a broken parasol and seemed to be practicing an Indian war-howl. Elbow deep in the placid waters of the lake floundered another woman almost as wonderfully attired as the first, and quite as vocal.
It was rather trying, in this state of things, to receive from the triumphant baronet, with only a parenthetical 'Dear Lake, I beg your pardon, a rough knock on the elbow of the hand that held his glass, and to be then summarily hustled out of his place.
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