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"What will do for a grandson of Methuselah will not do for an Adorjan. When an Adorjan's name is called he must answer to it like a man. Our brother will be the pride of his regiment, and will soon rise to be an officer; then he can obtain his discharge and come home." Manasseh pressed his sister's hand in gratitude for these words of courage and good cheer.
In all periods of Japanese art a favorite subject has been the group of the snowy-bearded Takénouchi, the Japanese Methuselah, holding the infant Ojin in his arms, while Jingu, the heroic mother, stands by in martial robes.
"You talk as if you yourself were a near relation of Methuselah!" laughing. "I'm thirty-five," returned Olga, "And that's old enough to know that nine-tenths of your 'nice human people' are self-seeking vampires living on the generosity of the other tenth. Besides, you have only to wait till you come out professionally and you can have as many so-called friends as you choose.
He is of the old Washington Square stock, as antique and as honourable as Methuselah. Undine soon tires of him; above all, tires of his family and their old-fashioned social code. For her the rowdy joys of Peter Van Degen and his set. The Odyssey of Undine is set forth for us by an accomplished artist in prose.
"What's come to Juan Can to be so good-natured to-day?" saucily asked Margarita, the youngest and prettiest of the maids, popping her head out of a window, and twitching Juan's hair. He was so gray and wrinkled that the maids all felt at ease with him. He seemed to them as old as Methuselah; but he was not really so old as they thought, nor they so safe in their tricks.
A shambling, loose-jointed giant rolled out of one of the tents, yawning and rubbing the sleep from his eyes. Then he sighted the strange canoe and was wide awake on the instant. "By the jumping Methuselah! That damned sky-pilot!" Hay Stockard nodded his head bitterly, half-reached for his rifle, then shrugged his shoulders. "Pot-shot him," Bill suggested, "and settle the thing out of hand.
"I've got news news, news!" he exclaimed, wading through his own perspiration to where she sat. "I can guess what it is," the girl remarked smilingly, as she reached out a hand to him, but remained seated. "It's a real, live baby born to Lydia, wife of Methuselah, the woman also being of goodly years. It is, isn't it." "The fattest, finest, most 'scrumpshus' son of all the ages that ever "
"Maybe it is 'Methuselah, now 'Methuselah John'! You see, he's told us to try to guess it," she explained, turning to William; "but, honestly, I don't believe, whatever it is, I'll ever think of him as anything but 'Mary Jane." "Well, as far as I can judge, he has nobody but himself to thank for that, so he can't do any complaining," smiled William, as he rose to go.
After twenty years of it I realized that I was walking with my own ignorance and self-conceit, and that I was not within a hundred and fifty years of the experience and wisdom I was pretending to. HASLAM. Now I come to think of it, old Methuselah must have had to think twice before he took on anything for life.
"Then this side of the door is mine and I can pound on it, for the same reason." Mr. Penrose sneered in the darkness: "I suppose you're some sour old maid you sound like it." "And no doubt you're a Methuselah with dyspepsia!" Wallie smote the pillow gleefully old Mr. Penrose's collection of bottles and boxes and tablets for indigestion were a byword.
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