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It will be such a relief to find oneself once more among people who have glimpses of common sense, who are not all in uniform, and who did not insist so very strongly on their sublime attitude. Yesterday evening there were a series of open-air clubs held on the Boulevards and other public places. The orators were in most instances women or aged men.
First of all, a Roman model was well chosen for so vast a building. The Greeks built no large roofed structures. Their great assemblages were held in open-air theaters and stadia. The Greek masterpiece, the incomparable Parthenon at Athens, was considerably smaller than Oregon's timbered imitation at the Exposition. On the other hand, the solid Roman style lends itself to bulk.
Sir Luke has been hearing all about him. 'He's not her equal. His father was just a land bailiff, and his grandfather a crofter. 'Oh, what DOES that matter! In these days any of us would marry the roughest of rough diamonds, provided he was decently well off. Biddy has always been mad after adventure and an open-air life.
But she never complained. Devoted to her husband and to her laughing, bright-eyed child, she loved the open-air life of the country, and with such a commodious and picturesque house, one of the best in the district, she thoroughly enjoyed every hour of her life.
Drink-sodden Georgian England responded to the open-air evangelism of Whitefield and Wesley; the next century found the Established Church divided against itself by the learning and culture of the Oxford Movement.
"I've catched the finest creature as ever harboured in Dean Woods," he said, "and her word be my law for evermore." But nobody else heard the truth that Wade was the unknown sinner, for Millicent felt as her father would have been cruel vexed about it. They was wed in the summer and Wade found open-air work to his taste not a mile from their home.
"Relighting my candle and shutting the window Achrow is one of those open-air fiends who never had a bronchial cold in his life, and expects everyone else to be equally immune I found myself in a room that was well calculated to strike even the most hardened ghost-hunter with awe. "It was coffin-shaped, large, narrow, and lofty; and floor, panelling, and furniture were of the blackest oak.
When a sufficient number is on hand, they are taken out by the boatman, carefully cleaned and hung up to dry in fly-proof, open-air cages. When perfectly dry inside and out they are packed in sweet-smelling Tallac Meadow hay, and shipped by express.
The glory of "Tom Jones" is in its episodes, its crowded canvas, the unfailing verve and variety of its action: in the fine open-air atmosphere of the scenes, the sense of the stir of life they convey: most of all, in an indescribable manliness or humanness which bespeaks the true comic force something of that same comic view that one detects in Shakspere and Moliere and Cervantes.
"On the afternoon of Sunday, January 31st, I was able to see some of the results of William Booth's work in the East of London, by attending his Experience Meeting, held in the East London Theatre. About 2 o'clock some of his helpers and Converts went out from the Mission Hall, where they had been praying together, and held an Open-Air Meeting in front of a large brewery opposite the Hall.
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