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Then, too, as we shall see in a subsequent chapter, it was in the England of the eighteenth century that the Industrial Revolution began, a marvelous improvement in manufacturing, which fostered the growth of a powerful industrial class and enabled the English to make goods more cheaply and in greater profusion and to sell them more readily, at lower prices, both at home and abroad, than any other people in the world.
Yet the influence of the mysterious state of my nerves, which I have described above, was so marvelous that, incredible though it seems, the moment the Exchange closed, I knew exactly, where I stood. Like a mechanical lightning calculator, my mind threw up before me the net result of these selling and buying transactions.
Compare her civilization, in historic times, with that of the West. Historic times are very little to go by, but they are all we have at present. She attained marvelous heights; but they were not the same kind of heights the West has attained. Through her most troublous, stirring, and perilous times, she carried whole provinces of Devachan with her.
"This is marvelous," he said. "Have you told the police?" "I have not," she answered. "I wish, if I can, to avoid telling the police." "But the money? To whom did it belong?" "Not to the murdered man." "To any one whom you know of?" he inquired. "I wonder," she said, after a moment of hesitation, "whether I am telling you too much." "You are telling me a good deal," he admitted frankly.
"Your advice to drop the matter is excellent." The chief of police elevated his brows interrogatively. "For I presume," continued Courtlandt, rising, "that Mademoiselle's abductor is by this time safely across the frontier." There is a heavenly terrace, flanked by marvelous trees.
"More wonderful than Mr. Bartholomew knows," agreed the young fellow. "An electric locomotive with both great speed and great hauling power is what more than one inventor has been aiming at for two or three decades. Ever since Edison and Westinghouse began their experiments, in truth." "Is the locomotive they are using out there a very marvelous machine?" asked the girl, with added interest.
After much fatigue, Moodie climbed the hill, and we were once more safe by our own fireside. Here we found the elucidation of Jenny's marvelous tales: a copy of the Queen's proclamation, calling upon all loyal gentlemen to join in putting down the unnatural rebellion.
The origin of religious opinions dates, as a general thing, from the time when savage nations were yet in a state of infancy. It was to coarse, ignorant, and stupid men that the founders of religion addressed themselves in all ages, in order to present them with Gods, ceremonies, histories of fabulous Divinities, marvelous and terrible fables.
How marvelous she had been then a sweet nymph of flesh and blood, glorified by the moon to an ethereal delicacy, with the living pallor of sun-kissed skin, her eyes looking at him like stars beneath her shawl.
But she had gathered all these marvelous things to her soul too late for happiness. "Now it is answered," she declared aloud. "That is what has happened?... And all that is past.... Is there anything left? If so what?" She flung her query out to the winds of the desert. But the desert seemed too gray, too vast, too remote, too aloof, too measureless. It was not concerned with her little life.
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