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She would have signaled that instant, but her approach had been Sorenson's cue for a certain fond attention and endearment, which ended in a briny obfuscation.... It had been such a little push, too. She tossed a lifering after him, saw him come up and catch his stroke as she tapped the deck with her stick the three doubles sharply.... And now a sunburst of small but striking events.
Captives under the wire dome, but desirous of escape, Sacred Beetles, Geotrupes, Copres, Gymnopleuri, Sisyphi, all see about them the freedom of space, the joys of the open sunlight; and not one thinks of going round under the rampart, a front which would present no difficulty to their pick-axes. Even in the higher ranks of animality, examples of similar mental obfuscation are not lacking.
"Can't you stop that for a day?" Harry Baggs demanded desperately. "Can't you?" He watched with bitter rebellion the inevitable slackening of the other's being, the obfuscation of his mind. Janin hung over the fence, with hardly more semblance of life than an incredibly tattered and empty garment. "Come on, you old fool!"
Not such a beard as one might starch and curl but the beginnings an obfuscation of the chin, cheeks, and upper lip a horror of unseemly growth a landscape of the face comparable to that ominous tract which, all agree, Hides the Dark Tower in Browning's grim poem of 'Childe Roland. Then is the time to strop your favorite razor!
After Junia read the substance of the will, she went springing up the mountain-side, as it were to work off her excitement by fatigue. At the mountain-top she gazed over the River St. Lawrence with an eye blind to all except this terrible distortion of life. Yet through her obfuscation, there ran admiration for Tarboe. What a man he was!
There was an effect, as it were, of light-headedness that was also clear-headedness, and the alteration in one's bodily sensations, instead of producing the mental obfuscation, the loss of identity that was a common mental trouble under former conditions, gave simply a new detachment from the tumid passions and entanglements of the personal life.
And, said he, in the midst of the laughter which followed the sensation his treasonable words occasioned, "Laugh as you may, you have got to come to it!" And then, with that singular obfuscation of ideas engendered, in the heads of their followers, by the astute Rebel-sympathizing leaders, he went on: "I am for Peace, and I am for Union too.
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