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Every philosopher and man of science who ventilates his theories in the monthly reviews has a devout listener in her; and this subject of the physical development of her sex has had its turn with other things in her mind. So she had the place built on her very first arrival, according to the latest lights on athletics, and in imitation of those at the new colleges for women.
But perhaps he did not say anything very memorable; to do that you must have something positive in your listener; and I was the mere response, the hollow echo, that youth must be in like circumstances. I was all the time afraid of wearing my welcome out, and I hurried to go when I would so gladly have staid.
Thus the listener hears the sounds more distinctly than we hear the words of a phonograph. Under such conditions a musician is capable of interpreting his exact feelings when manipulating the keys. He talks to his listeners with organ sounds. The great poet musicians can breathe out their inspirations in rapturous melodies.
Tomlinson, tell me what all that means? Would you believe it, the fellow looked me right in the face in that queer way he has and he said, 'I don't know!" "He said he didn't know!" repeated the listener, in a tone of amazement and respect. "By Jove! eh? he said he didn't know! The man's a wizard!" "And he looked as if he didn't!" went on Mr. Fyshe. "That's the deuce of it.
She was famous for dwelling at length upon her trials, as often as she could obtain a listener; and when I first became acquainted with her I really regarded her with a feeling of pity; but after a time I mentally decided that the greater part of her grievances existed only in her own imagination.
The listener had no difficulty in understanding this; it meant, of course, treasure concealed in the house Aurelia had long inhabited. 'We must both go and return by sea, said Aurelia, 'even though it cause us delay. I have no mind to pass through Neapolis. 'Be it so. The sky will be calm when this storm has passed Shall you return, said Basil, 'alone? 'Alone? Do you purpose to forsake me?
"This is the first real holiday I have had for many years, but I am determined to have a good time and am not going to let regret prey upon me." Molly had been a forced listener to this long speech, but she could not fool herself into thinking she had been an unwilling one. She was thrilled to the soul by Mr. Kinsella's history. No wonder he was so sad looking and occasionally so bitter!
Evidently what she had to say was too confidential to admit of a listener, not that the old ferryman seemed likely to take the trouble of listening to any talk that was not addressed to him. Lily soon did address her talk to him, "So, Brown, the cow has quite recovered." "Yes, Miss, thanks to you, and God bless you. To think of your beating the old witch like that!"
There was probably no one on board in whom he would have found a sympathetic listener, or even a psychologically interesting nature. His love of art, however, never deserted him. At Hobart Town he started a studio, and returned to sketching and portrait-painting, and his conversation and manners seem not to have lost their charm.
What he did not know in this respect he set himself diligently to learn. In talking about my travels to Chester Walkirk, I continued for a time to treat the subject in the same desultory manner in which I had related my experiences to my first listener; but the superior intelligence, and I may say the superior attention, of Walkirk acted upon me as a restraint as well as an incentive.
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