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Who shall draw the line in explaining many of the actions of the brute creation? Vose Adams was silent a moment and then emitted a low whistle. "Hang me, if I don't b'leve you're right, captain. I've been told that that dog knowed more than a good many folks and there ain't no doubt of it now." The disgusted parson exclaimed: "Why didn't one of us think of that?
They had taken the utmost pains to work on my imagination on this particular point, on which he knew my early associations might betray me to symptoms of apparent insanity. Upon comparing and explaining these circumstances, Mr. Montenero further laid open to me the treacherous ingenuity of the man who had so duped me by the show of sympathy and friendship.
"Ah," I returned; "then you hope to keep from the world what is known to the detectives?" She did not answer. "Miss Leavenworth," I went on, "I am afraid you do not comprehend your position. Try to look at the case for a moment in the light of an unprejudiced person; try to see for yourself the necessity of explaining " "But I cannot explain," she murmured huskily. "Cannot!"
She saw no possibility of explaining to her aunt the new thoughts she was beginning to have about life and did not want to hurt her by trying. "How can I explain my thoughts when they're not clear in my own mind, when I am myself just groping blindly about?" she asked herself. "She wants me to be good," she thought.
It is something that is finished, a trace followed to the end. He is a dead man as he lies there. He loved you. I believe you loved him. He is my prisoner. Now you can guess why I know you will not harm yourself." I knew. She was suffering too much to reason clearly. But he was eager to help her to understand He amplified by explaining: "It will be for you to say if he is to be tortured.
Instead of explaining the effect by the cause, this doctrine explains the cause by the effect, and is, I conceive, founded on a latent misconception of the nature of classification.
"What is it that you undertake to prove?" exclaimed Marillac, suddenly. "Eh! you know very well that if Monsieur le Baron " he did not continue, but with a coarse gesture he finished explaining his thoughts. "You can prove this?" "Before the courts, if necessary."
We are going to try to do as he, and to hunt a bubbling spring fifty or a hundred yards below ground. The engineer is here, and Maurice is explaining to him the geology of the soil. We are trying to dig into the bowels of the earth to forget all that is going on above it. But we cannot distract ourselves from this terror!
The thing he remembered most about the night before was our scrap and the gross way I had insulted him. I didn't blame him, for if any man had taken me for a German spy I would have been out for his blood, and it was no good explaining that he had given me grounds for suspicion. He was as touchy about his blessed principles as an old maid about her age.
Somehow the current seemed to have increased alarmingly in speed. I thought I heard a sound of merriment. I looked up. The little weazened man was gesticulating wildly with that forefinger of his. He was explaining something. The information bureau, steadily dwindling into the distance, was not listening. It seemed to be enjoying itself immensely.
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