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But the message of Thoreau, though his fervency may be inconstant and his human appeal not always direct, is, both in thought and spirit, as universal as that of any man who ever wrote or sang as universal as it is nontemporaneous as universal as it is free from the measure of history, as "solitude is free from the measure of the miles of space that intervene between man and his fellows."
Had the Senator been assaulted by the blue-coated guardian of law and order he could not have displayed more bewilderment. "You, Rachel?" he gasped. The policeman was about to intervene, but it was the Senator, not the shabbily dressed woman, who prevented him. "It's all right, officer," he stammered vexedly. "I know this lady. She is an old friend." The man saluted again and drew aside.
The Council of Three kept them systematically in the dark about matters which it concerned them to know, negotiated over their heads, transmitted to Bucharest injunctions which only they were competent to receive, insisted on their compromising to accept future decrees of the Conference without an inkling as to their nature, and on their admitting the right of an alien institution the League of Nations to intervene in favor of minorities against the legally constituted government of the country.
They checked and waited where they stood, barely screened by the few boughs that still might intervene between them and the open, not daring to advance, and not daring to retreat lest their movements should draw attention to themselves.
Were it not that sheer sleeping and soporific passages; circumlocutions, repetitions, touches even of pure doting jargon, so often intervene! On the whole, Professor Teufelsdrockh, is not a cultivated writer. Nevertheless, in almost his very worst moods, there lies in him a singular attraction.
During the attack on MacDonald's brigade the Egyptian cavalry had watched from their position on the southern slopes of the Kerreri Hills, ready to intervene, if necessary, and support the infantry by a charge.
James testifies that in the closing hours of this age Capital and Labour will look at each other with wrinkled brows, clenched hands and nervous, impatient expectation. He exhorts the Christian labourer to be patient because, as he says, "the Coming of the Lord draweth nigh," is so near, so imminent He standeth as a judge verily "at the door" and ready to intervene.
Here is the speech: "I hope the House will not think me impertinent to intervene in the debate, but I am moved to do so a great deal by that sentence in the speech of the Foreign Secretary in which he said that the one bright spot in the situation was the changed feeling in Ireland.
We have proven, by strong arguments, that the authority of excommunication pertaineth to the whole church; which, though he contradicteth, yet, in one place, forgetting himself, he acknowledges that the authority of the church of Corinth was to intervene in the excommunication of the incestuous man.
But the interest of the day was to come. The address was agreed to by a majority of 262 against 234. This was exactly the same majority as before, only with both sides slightly strengthened. Then the principal leaders of Opposition thought the time had come for them to intervene with a deliberately planned coup de théâtre.
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