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He read every book and newspaper he could get hold of, and if he came across anything in his reading that he wished to remember he would copy it on a shingle, because writing paper was scarce, and either learn it by heart or hide the shingle away until he could get some paper to copy it on. His father thought he read too much. "It will spile him for work," he said.
That act might have been forced upon him for two reasons: to keep him here, and to impress upon him how powerless he was. Powerless! A flicker of stubborn will stirred to respond to that implied challenge. All right, the mysterious they had made him do this. But they had underrated him by letting him learn, almost contemptuously, of their presence by that revelation.
Our workingmen know how to use modern tools, to make compressed air, steam, electricity do their work at every possible point, and while the United States still ranks far below England as a ship-building center, Englishmen, Germans, and Frenchmen are coming over here to learn how we build the ships that we do build.
"That's what you'll learn to do, my joker, before you've been two cruises to sea." In the meantime the gentleman in the plaid cloak, who was seated by me, smoked his cigar without saying a word. I commenced a conversation with him relative to my profession, and asked him whether it was not very difficult to learn.
But I can't learn him books, Mr. Burton. You've got to do that. You've got to be eyes for him, an' he's got to go to school to you. Mr. Burton," Susan's voice grew husky and unsteady, "you've got a chance now to paint bigger an' grander pictures than you ever did before, only you won't be paintin' 'em on canvas backs.
The countries in which I may have to earn and eat my bread I know not. But if I was seeing you every day, I might get to feel hard at God." "No, no! He fashioned us, David, and he knows what falls and sore hurts we must get before we learn to step sure and safe." "In the end it may all be right. I know not.
"I would I could take you with me; but as I cannot, you must hasten to learn how to make better pot-hooks and write me letters, which Aunt Euphemia will forward with hers. And, Moppet, I think I shall give you in special charge to Sally; how will that please you?" "I love Sally," said the child simply, as the tender-hearted Sally knelt down beside her.
"If I really have that gift," said George, "I will answer your question by another: Is it through experience that we learn to read the human heart or is it through sympathy? If it be experience, what becomes of the Poet? If the Poet be born, not made, is it not because he is born to sympathise with what he has never experienced?" "I see! There are born Preachers!"
Just as they got outside the shop they saw Professor Henderson running toward them, followed by Washington and Andy. "What has happened?" asked the inventor, for he had not been able to learn much from Washington's excited account. "I don't know," answered Jack. "We heard a explosion, just after we saw two men running away from the shop, and we found Mr. Roumann senseless."
"'Tis this ... could it ... might it perchance be possible you should learn with time ... mayhap ... to love me a little? Nay, not a little, not gently nor with reason, but fiercely, mightily, beyond the cramping bounds of all reason?" Now here she laughed, a small, sad laugh with no mirth in it, and leaned her brow against my arm as one very weary. "O foolish Martin!" she sighed.
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