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"In fact, it's as nearly perfect as it can be and not take angel-wings and fly away," declared Billy. "I have named it 'Hillside." Very early in her career as house-owner, Billy decided that however delightful it might be to have a furnace to shake, it would not be at all delightful to shake it; besides, there was the new motor car to run.
"But you see we grow into a way of life, we settle down among habits and conventions, we say 'This is all right' and 'That is always so. We get more and more settled into our life as a whole and more and more confident. Unless something happens to shake us out of our sphere of illusion.
"Here, you fellows," he cried to the rest of the sick men; "we've given you time enough now. You must get up and shake all this off. You'll all be on deck in a quarter of an hour, so look sharp." "This here's a nice game, Mas' Don. Do you know how I feel?" "No, Jem; but I know how I feel." "How's that, sir?"
He lifted his hand to his brow and gazed at the shadows with a wonder-struck air. Then he seemed to recognize their import, and turned to me with a shake of the head. "Lad," said he, "we are about to have trouble. 'Tis that accursed Familiar. He hath tracked us. Said I not that these devils in man's shape are like sleuth-hounds?" "But the other, Pharaoh? What is the other?" "An Indian, lad.
Then he spoke again, more earnestly than before, and waved the strangers away from the red hill. "We're not going," said Mr. Roumann, and he added a few of the Martian words he had learned, endeavoring to state that they were going to take only a little of the Cardite. The officer, with a last warning shake of his big head, suddenly turned and ran away.
She could not explain afterwards why she did not interfere. I imagine that she hoped against hope that she was misinterpreting what she heard, and also that a kind of terror seized her which she found it really impossible to shake off. First, there was the opening and closing of the door; two or three footsteps, and then dead silence.
So long as the earth was regarded as the centre round which all the celestial bodies move, it was hopeless to attempt to shake men's faith in the influences of the stars. So far as I know, there is not a single instance of a believer in the old Ptolemaic system who rejected astrology absolutely.
Would you be willing to risk one thoroughly dishonest student not to overthrow it? She got awfully white, and I could see her cup shake in her hand, but she said very quietly, 'I quite agree with what has already been said, Mr. Blake." "And then?" "Then he said 'Indeed! again.
"Will you git up in church an' say before everybody that you knew I was good when you said I was bad that you lied about me?" "Yes yes." Still Becky looked at the girl, who stooped again. "She will, Becky, I know she will. Won't you forgive her and leave peace behind you? Dave and Jim's brother are here make them shake hands. Won't you won't you?" she asked, turning from one to the other.
"All of us," said Selwood, thinking it was time a man spoke. "Cox-Raythwaite, Mr. Tertius, myself. That's a fact, anyhow, so you'd better grasp it." Barthorpe straightened himself and looked keenly at Selwood. Then he spoke naturally and simply. "I'm much obliged to you, Selwood," he said. "I'd shake hands with you if I could.