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Among the slaves who thronged that house, the natural kindliness of the philosopher's heart may have drawn his attentions to one little lame Phrygian boy, deformed and mean-looking, whose face if it were any index of the mind within must even from boyhood have worn a serene and patient look.
A chart of the Atlantic was lying on the table and with his index finger he marked out the mate's course; this course was not across the sea, but far from it, following an inland route. "To-morrow," he said, "the French are coming to take possession. You may leave whenever you please, but it will be convenient to have you go as soon as possible...."
Instruction poured into my brain at such a rate that I could not digest it all at the time; but in later years, when my destiny had led me far from Dover Street, the emphatic moral of those lessons became clear. The memory of my experience on Dover Street became the strength of my convictions, the illumined index of my purpose, the aureola of my happiness.
At the midsummer which we are now speaking of, I must needs confess that the noontide sun came down more fervently than I found altogether tolerable; so that I was fain to shift my position with the shadow of the shrubbery, making myself the movable index of a sundial that reckoned up the hours of an almost interminable day. For each day seemed endless, though never wearisome.
In a crisis they could and would rely on one another utterly. Why should their demeanour be so false an index to their real feelings? He supposed it was just the fault of loose habit. He did not blame her. From mere pride he blamed himself.
But that, for many, art not only adds something new, but seems to transmute and enrich the old, is certain and by no means deplorable. The fact is, this passionate and austere art of the Contemporary Movement is not only an index to the general ferment, it is also the inspiration, and even the standard, of a young, violent, and fierce generation.
One is struck with the amount of that unconscious assimilation of experience which we find in his words, and which is in itself an index to his nature. When we consider how Jesus handles Nature and her wilder children in his parables, another point attracts attention. Men vary a great deal in this.
What is it?" cried the girl, springing to his side. He pointed with shaking index finger to the bird within the cage. "Dead!" he said brokenly, "Dead, Niece Louise! Poor old Jerry's dead and him and me shipmates for so many, many years." "Oh!" screamed the girl, grasping his arm. "You are Cap'n Abe!"
The children "have to touch over the alphabetical signs as though they were writing." They touch them with the tips of the index and middle fingers in the same way as when they touched the wooden insets, and with the hand raised as when they lightly touched the rough and smooth surfaces.
If, as has been said, the grade of civilization in any community can be estimated by the amount of sulphuric acid it consumes, the extent to which a work like this has been called for in different sections of the country may to some extent be considered an index of its intellectual aspirations, if not of its actual progress.
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