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What is more interesting than to see a great yellow garden-spider hanging head downward in the centre of his web, when we approach too closely, instead of deserting his snare, set it vibrating back and forth so rapidly that he becomes a mere blur; a more certain method of escaping the onslaught of a bird than if he ran to the shelter of a leaf.
Now, I swear to you that you shall henceforth never more be the spider that dwells in that web! For you are a garden-spider, an abominable, dumpy, old garden-spider, for whom a web, such as Hodge is, is much too fine and much too elegant. Be quiet, therefore, old spider, and spin your net elsewhere! You shall not live in my net, but Tib for, yes, I do know Tib.
In the centre was a circular arrangement of desks, and in the midst of these an elderly man, like a garden-spider in his web; but it was his duty to feed, not devour, the human flies who sat or walked to and fro with literary meat gathered from all over the world. It was my first vision of a great library. Another time we went all of us, I think to the Tower of London.
Talked familiarly with kings and queens Half-witted girl who giggled all the time It gnawed me terribly A Scotch terrier named Towsey A sentiment of diplomatic etiquette London as a physical entity Ladies in low-necked dresses An elderly man like a garden-spider Into the bowels of the earth The inner luminousness of genius Isolated and tragic situation "Ate ever man such a morsel before!"
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