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Thats their notion of science. SAVVY. Steady, Nunk! Hold the fort. LUBIN. You volunteered the consultation, Doctor.
How are they to know anything if nobody ever tells them? If you don't, I will. CONRAD. You cant. You didn't read my book; and you know nothing about it. You just hold your tongue. SAVVY. I just wont, Nunk. I shall have a vote when I am thirty; and I ought to have it now.
Oh, thats nonsense, Nunk. BURGE. Do you mean to say that you have nothing more practical to offer than the mere wish to live longer? Why, if people could live by merely wishing to, we should all be living for ever already! Everybody would like to live for ever. Why don't they? CONRAD. Pshaw! Everybody would like to have a million of money. Why havnt they?
Into her earliest vocabulary, as haphazard as if the words had been dished up out of the alphabet of a vermicelli soup, crept the word "Sunday," mysteriously boiled down to "Nunk," the first time her mother heard it, the pride seeming to crowd around her heart, fairly suffocating her.
Then Science is more ignorant than the children at any village school. CONRAD. Of course if you think it more scientific to say that what we are discussing is not Adam and Eve and Eden, but the phylogeny of the blastoderm SAVVY. You neednt swear, Nunk. I can call Genesis Phylogenesis.
And so thou mindest clutching the mistletoe on nunk Hal's shoulder. I warrant it groweth still on the crooked May bush? And is old Bobbin alive?"
As if the luster of this girl child could be any brighter, yet here was the new shine of the mental beginning to radiate through. Nunk! Was there any limit to this ecstasy of possession? It ran through her days like a song.
Why are these two ridiculous people to be allowed to come in and walk over us as if the world existed only to play their silly parliamentary game? SAVVY. I'm sorry. But Mr Lubin didn't stand on much ceremony with me, did he? And Mr Burge hasnt addressed a single word to me. I'm not going to stand it. You and Nunk have a much better program than either of them.
FRANKLYN. Yes; but the old must not desert their posts until the new are ripe for them. They desert them now two hundred years too soon. SAVVY. I believe the old people are the new people reincarnated, Nunk. I suspect I am Eve. I am very fond of apples; and they always disagree with me. CONRAD. You are Eve, in a sense.
And so thou mindest clutching the mistletoe on nunk Hal's shoulder. I warrant it groweth still on the crooked May bush? And is old Bobbin alive?"
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