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From this night on, Lilith Gordon represented a powder-mine, which might explode at any minute. And she herself had laid the train! From the outset, Laura had been accepted, socially, by even the most exclusive, as one of themselves; and this, in spite of her niggardly allowance, her ridiculous clothes. For the child had race in her: in a well-set head, in good hands and feet and ears.
The Powers were waiting for her return. But her consternation at finding Neale really gone was a blow from which she needed a breathing time to recover. She couldn't have it so. She could never endure a whole day with this possibility like a threatening powder-mine under her feet, ready to go off and bring her inner world to ruin and despair.
Of course, with me an' the boys watchin', you-all will be safe to go to bed. An' we're to rouse your guests early before daylight, to hit the trail up into the mountains. Tell them to pack outfits before goin' to bed. Say as your servants hev sloped, you might as well go campin' with the cowboys. That's all. If we hev any luck your' friends'll never know they've been sittin' on a powder-mine."
Not often before in the history of science has it happened that a great theory has been nurtured in its author's brain through infancy and adolescence to its full legal majority before being sent out into the world. Thus the fuse that led to the great powder-mine had been lighted.
But I do not want those despatches to fall into the hands of bad men. You forgive?" winningly. The Parson drew a great breath. It was so sudden, so aweful, so utter. It was Piper who broke the silence from below. "We're settin on a powder-mine, sir. Is that it?" "That's it." "Ah, well," came the philosophic voice. "Short and sweet bless God. Better'n lingerin on it out." Kit panted,
'Young man, interposed the landlord, 'such blas-pheémous langige as that must not be spoke here; I ain't a-goin' to have my good beer turned to vinegar by blasphemin' them as owns the thunder, I can tell you. But the effect of my words upon the Gypsy was that of a spark in a powder-mine. 'Henry? she said, 'Henry? are you the fine rei as she used to talk about?
He thinks he can keep you to your word by threats. He will be different when he sees he has a man to deal with." What follows should be prefaced with some simile the simile of a powder-mine, a thunderbolt, an earthquake for it blew Philip up in the air and flattened him on the ground and swallowed him up in the depths. Lilia turned on her gallant defender and said
The war of armaments went on unchecked. Europe slept on a powder-mine. In every Dominion the new sense of peril stirred instant response. If Britain's rivals had counted on the Dominions holding aloof in the hour of her need, or had held their resources negligible, they were speedily awakened.
He showed it to his friend Hooker, made careful provision for its publication in the event of his sudden death, then stored it away in his desk and went ahead with the gathering of more data. This was the unexploded powder-mine to which I have just referred.
Then all Germany from the Memel to Lake Constance will blaze up like a powder-mine and the whole land bristle with bayonets. The war which Bismarck prophesied was this war, and what he foretold came to pass, and we saw it with our eyes. We saw the German mobilization with eyes which since then have been consecrate.
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