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In this slender girl beside him he saw a person of insight and originality, a girl assuredly not more than twenty years of age, attractive, and thoroughly feminine. How ever did they do it? He harked back in his thoughts to her theory. And he dwelt not so much upon the theory itself as upon her manner of advancing it.
He would rally his party once more around the good old Jeffersonian doctrines. Monroe felt similar doubts when he was presented with a bill to authorize the collection of tolls on the new Cumberland Road. In a veto message of prodigious length he, too, harked back to the original Republican principle of strict construction of the Constitution.
A year older than me. Oh, ought I to have said 'than I'? That always puzzles me." "You have Milton on your side. He wrote: Satan than whom no higher sat. Still, it is generally allowed that Milton wrote bad grammar there." Cynthia was awed momentarily a quotation from "Paradise Lost" always commands respect so she harked back to an easier topic. "Is your sister married?" "Yes."
"And for a very special reason?" she harked back, now, suddenly, for the first time since they had touched thin ice, giving him a glance. It was the fleetingest of fleeting glances, it was merry and ironic, but there was something in it which brought a flame to his blue eyes.
He almost became boyish. But when he began to discuss great problems the lightness vanished and he became the serious thinker. We harked back to the days when I had first seen him in England. I asked him to tell me what he thought of the aftermath of the stupendous struggle. He said: "The war was just a phase of world convulsion. It made the first rent in the universal structure.
It is because his art is so old that it was "too new" for even Corot to understand it; because he harked back beyond the pseudoclassicism of his time to the great art of the past, and was classic as Phidias and Giotto and Michelangelo were classic, that he seemed strange to his contemporaries. In everything he was conservative. He hated change; he wanted things to remain as they had always been.
She had ceased to be profitable in competition with the larger, more modern fore-and-after, but these battered, veteran craft died hard. They harked back to a simpler age, to the era of the stage-coach and the spinning-wheel, to the little shipyards that were to be found on every bay and inlet of New England. They were still owned and sailed by men who ashore were friends and neighbors.
Desperately I harked back to the ten commandments in an endeavor to support my refusal by other reasons than distaste or discourtesy, but laughter met my text. "White man does not follow white man's tapus," said my hostess, gently placing my hand in that of Vanquished Often. The slender fingers clung timorously to mine.
'I 'm to take my lady to my lord? and, 'Does it mean my lady wants a fly? Kit asked, and harked back on whether Madge had seen my lord. 'At five in the morning? don't sham donkey with me, said Gower. The business looked inclined to be leaky, but which the way for proving himself other than a donkey puzzled Kit: so much so, that a shove made him partly grateful.
Uncle Mo paused to enjoy a moment's triumph, then harked back: "No the precise expression made use of was, they might put their finger on him any minute." "Which don't mean the same thing," said Aunt M'riar. "No more it don't, M'riar, now you mention it. But he won't trust his nose down this Court. If he does, and I ain't here, just you do like I tell you...." Aunt M'riar interrupted.
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