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"In digging things out of the ground which you probably do now and then," the Professor began in a loud voice; "in making things into heaps which no doubt you often do; and in kicking things about with one heel which you seem never to leave off doing; have you ever happened to notice another Professor something like me, but different?"
We were parted for ever! We left behind the painted buoy That tosses at the harbour mouth; And madly danced our heart with joy, As fast we fleeted to the south. How fresh was every sight and sound On open main, on winding shore! We knew the merry world was round, And we might sail for evermore.
Such considerations never occur to them. Messrs Goble and Cohn had provided for those who called to see them one small bench on the landing, conveniently situated at the intersecting point of three draughts, and had let it go at that. Nobody, except perhaps the night-watchman, had ever seen this bench empty.
"Also kleien und also kratzen, Unsre Hunde und unsre Katzen." At last Sidonia answered, "This time I will help him; but if he ever bring the roaring ox out of the stall again, assuredly he will repent it."
If the dramatist says quite truly, "This particular leaf is sere and yellow," and if the audience quite falsely understands him to say, "All leaves are sere and yellow," the gigantic lie has illogically been conveyed that the world is ever windy with autumn, that spring is but a lyric dream, and summer an illusion.
She was offended by it, but also she found much in it to make her laugh. There were the gawks; the sprawling ill-bred men; the illiterate young women; the mushroom life; the haste, the crudities of living; the ugliness and the disorder; the unsettled, ever restless, patchy catch as catch can existence; the attempt, in a word, to make life, to build a town, a capital.
"Your last question is easily answered," he replied. "I did not think of asking you to invite her to supper this evening for the reason that Captain Will sent me word that he had business affairs to talk over with me." Mrs. Hallam's face was wreathed in smiles. "I wonder," she said, "if there ever was a young man clever enough to hold his own with a woman at word fence.
"Oh, Martin," she pressed her lips upon his bandaged head, her eyes were glowing with that "light that never was on land or sea" "Oh, Martin, I've loved you ever since that day you saved my life by throwing me into the bean-patch and then kissed my burnt hand." "Not your hand this time, sweetheart," he whispered, "your lips!"
"Even thus was I once wont to linger on the lips of your mother; but hers ever pouted to be pressed by mine; and not with tears, but with sunniest smiles, did she court them."
"The end is the most beautiful in English literature. 'It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known. That has always haunted me." "I liked that, too," she replied; "but it wasn't that I had in mind. Here it is." She opened the book which she had brought to the table.
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