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"Got speed?" ejaculated Jim. "Enough to burn a streak across this bay, boy." Jim laughed good-naturedly, and the old sailor was evidently pleased with his appreciation. The bargain completed, the two comrades were about to board the craft when the old sailor of the cove interposed. "I reckon you ain't in any sort of a hurry.
"You're fond of the piano, though. And you like to hear me sing, don't you?" "Well, I do," he muttered, as if the admission were forced from him. "Come with me, then." He dragged himself up from his chair, and was about to follow her. "You ain't going to take him from me, grannie, after he's been and struck me?" interposed his wife, in a tone half pathetic, half injured.
It traced rapidly, below the flowing locks, a huge, uncouth A; then, more slowly, within the sprawling legs of the A, a shadowy D; and finally, at the top, above them both, in tiny figures, a date 1503. The brush dropped from his fingers, and he stepped back with a little sigh. His companion reached out his hand. "That's all right," he said. "I'll take it." The artist interposed a hand.
I had not gone above three miles, however, when the sky in a moment changed from the intense glare of a tropical noontide to the deepest gloom, as if a bad angel had suddenly overshadowed us, and interposed his dark wings between us and the blessed sun; indeed, so instantaneous was the effect, that it reminded me of the withdrawing of the foot lights in a theatre.
'He is not High Church nor Low Church? 'No, not exactly. 'What is he, then? What does he believe? 'Well, I can hardly say; he does not believe that anybody will be burnt in a brimstone lake for ever. 'That is what he does not believe, interposed Clara. 'He believes that Socrates and the great Greeks and Romans who acted up to the light that was within them were not sent to hell.
"I certainly am willing to tell you what I have told every one else," I interposed, considering it better not to make an enemy of so judicious a young man; and seeing him brighten up at this, I thereupon related all I considered desirable for the general public to know.
The point is worth a pause, because it is a good, short way of stating Shaw's attitude, right or wrong, upon the whole of formal morality. What he dislikes in young Doctor Paramore is that he has interposed a secondary and false conscience between himself and the facts.
Mr Dorrit now interposed, at once to stop these painful subjects by his authority, and to point their moral by his wisdom. 'My dear, said he to his younger daughter, 'I beg you to ha to say no more. Your sister Fanny expresses herself strongly, but not without considerable reason. You have now a hum a great position to support.
"Jessie," Guy interposed sternly, while the doctor looked disapprovingly at the little girl, who subsided into silence after saying, in an undertone, "I do think she's hateful, and that isn't all she said either about Maddy."
Prather concluded; but under his breath he added bitterly: "And you get both the store and Little Rivers!" in the prehensile instinct which gains one thing only to covet another. "You have the papers for the concession with you?" Jack asked. "Yes!" interposed Jack firmly. "Yes!" Prather admitted.
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