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They know it and tell it as a parrot would and if you interrupt, and throw them off the track, they have to go back and begin over again. All their lives long, they are employed in showing strange things to foreigners and listening to their bursts of admiration. It is human nature to take delight in exciting admiration.
For Charles Lamb, such form of religion becomes the solemn background on which the nearer and more exciting objects of his immediate experience relieve themselves, borrowing from it an expression of calm; its necessary atmosphere being indeed a profound quiet, that quiet which has in it a kind of sacramental efficacy, working, we might say, on the principle of the opus operatum, almost without any co-operation of one's own, towards the assertion of the higher self.
When all else fails follow the caribou, that is the law which governs the wolf in the hungry days; but before they crossed the mountains and followed the long valleys to the far southern ranges the wolves went back to the hills, where the trail began, for a more exciting and dangerous kind of hunting.
M'Cormick had waited upon the latter, and gave it as his opinion that any intercourse between the two families would be highly dangerous to Jane's state of mind, by exciting associations that might bring back to her memory the conduct of his son. The consequence was, that they saw each other only by accident, although Mr. Osborne often sent to inquire privately after Jane's health.
Mary, from her chair at the desk, regarded the malcontent with a smile, but her tone was crisp as she answered. "Listen, Agnes. The last time you tried to make a man give up part of his money it resulted in your going to prison for two years." Aggie sniffed, as if such an outcome were the merest bagatelle. "But that way was so exciting," she urged, not at all convinced.
However, Milly wisely reflected, one didn't marry for the sake of exciting conversation. The affair progressed quite smoothly; by the middle of winter Milly's friends smiled when they spoke of "Milly's young man" and were ready with their felicitations. On the whole they thought that Milly had "done quite well...."
"Why, he is going to be naughty again!" said the doctor, as the youth's prick throbbed under his exciting touches. "I must flog your bottom for all this, for it is very naughty and improper. Why, you seem to take a pleasure in it." "Oh, sir, I never felt anything so delightful," said Master Dale.
So you see Uncle Wiggily had an adventure after all, and quite an exciting one, too, and if the lemon drop doesn't fall on the stick of peppermint candy and make it sneeze when it goes to the moving pictures, I'll tell you next about Uncle Wiggily and the violets. Down in the kitchen of the hollow stump bungalow there was a great clattering of pots and pans.
And as he's the latest, he's the most well, exciting!" Susan with her chin in her hands, and her dusky countenance very much alive, seemed to be playing her sister with cautious mockery feeling her way. "Dear Susy I don't know why you're so unkind and unjust," said Lydia, after a moment, in the tone of one wounded. "How am I unkind? You're the practical one of us three.
However, he was very good-natured; he took Blanche's reluctant hand, and conducted her all along the stall, even proceeding to lift her up where she could not command a view of the whole, thus exciting her extreme indignation. She shook herself out when he set her down, surveyed her crumpled muslin, and believed he took her for a little girl!
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