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He turned to his desk and sat with his head propped in his hands, staring at the little photograph of Wartrace Hall which he had had mounted in a plate-glass paper-weight. The sight gave an added twist to the torture screw and he broke out again. "I've been nothing more than a bit of potter's clay, and the master potter God help me! is my own father! It's all plain enough now.
A little farther on is a potter spinning a wheel with his feet, while the soft lump of dull-coloured clay takes shape beneath his clever thumb as it races round. It seems to grow and swell and curve exquisitely as if it were a living thing. There are few sights more fascinating than a potter at work. You have often heard of the "potter's thumb," I expect?
With a smile judiciously bestowed with a kind word, a gentle tone, an occasional voice of earnest encouragement my uncle and aunt might have fashioned my heart at their pleasure. I should have been as clay in the hands of the potter a pliant willow in the grasp of the careful trainer.
You can put on running shorts and a blazer and potter about the grounds, feeling strong and athletic, and delude yourself into the notion that you are training for the sports. Ten minutes at the broad jump, five with the weight, a few sprints on the track it is all very amusing and harmless, but it is apt to become monotonous after a time.
"He tells me that you are a newspaper man. Between us we ought to be able to get out a very respectable paper." "We will," calmly announced Hollis; "and we'll get the first issue out Saturday. Come in here and we'll talk about it." He led the way to the front room and seated himself at the desk, motioning Potter to another chair. Within the next hour he knew all about the Kicker.
Bishop Potter asked us one day if we thought those Chinese people were our brethren. I am sure it took some Christian charity to decide that they were. One of these "brethren" was a Salvation Army man, who was married to an American woman. They were living in heathen quarters between decks and each day labored to teach the way of salvation.
Thomas Potter ordered the waiter to bring in, two goes of his best Scotch whiskey, with warm water and sugar, and a couple of his ‘very mildest’ Havannahs, which the waiter did. Mr. Thomas Potter mixed his grog, and lighted his cigar; Mr. Robert Smithers did the same; and then, Mr. Robert Smithers, with enthusiastic applause.
The interest now turned upon Gilbert Potter, who was very taciturn and thoughtful, and had little to relate. They noticed, however, that his eyes were turned often and inquiringly upon Alfred Barton, and that the latter as steadily avoided meeting them. When Gilbert went to bring Roger, who had quietly waited at the crossing of the roads, Deb. Smith suddenly made her appearance.
"I really am perfectly contented, mother," he said to Lady Calmady more than once. "Look at the length and breadth of the gallery! It is as a city of magnificent distances, after the deck of the dear, old yacht and my twelve-foot cabin. And I'm not a man calculated to occupy so very much space after all! Let me potter about here with my books and my bibelots.
He reformed civil procedure in the way of making it uniform, and introducing a system of small-debt courts. By RT. REV. HENRY CODMAN POTTER, BISHOP OF NEW YORK A complete biography of St.
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