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He was endowed with few of the qualities which secure a quick success fluency, finish of style, the art of giving graceful utterance to current thought; he had in full measure the stronger if slower powers sound knowledge, infinite industry, and the sympathetic insight of penetrative imagination that ultimately hold the fastnesses of fame.
But promotion was waiting for him. He was a good worker. He would next go on the starcher, and later he would go into the loom room. There was nothing after that except increased efficiency. The machinery ran faster than when he had first gone to work, and his mind ran slower. He no longer dreamed at all, though his earlier years had been full of dreaming. Once he had been in love.
The expression of natural dignity, which was peculiar to these features, was today greatly intensified; he was the father of the bride, and felt it. His movements were even slower and more measured than on the day when he bargained with the horse-dealer.
Something of the kind had happened between him and the doctor's wife and it had turned out that way. When after five or ten minutes he did not see her, he went back to the work of oiling the wagon wheels. "It's going to be a slower thing. She's shy, a green girl," he told himself.
"Let us run down to the lakeshore and look," said Bessie, and several of the young people started down the glen, followed by the rest of the party at a slower pace; all but Sibyl who still remained on the rock with Graham Marr.
No matter to what degree of love we have attained, we need to pray for more; without persistent but short prayer for faith and love we might fall back into strange woeful periods of cold obscurity. To the accomplished lover great and wonderful is prayer; the more completely the mind and heart are lifted up in it, the slower the wording.
He ran off a little more, slower this time, then stopped. The kite began to flutter. I fell into the chair, jammed the rod-butt into the socket, and began to pump and wind. "Doc, you're hooked on and you've stopped him!" boomed Dan. His face beamed. "Look at your legs!"
And then when he had reduced the car to a slower pace, "You know, Una," he laughed, "you do take charge of a fellow, don't you?" "You need 'mothering'," she smiled. "Or sistering. I wish I had a sister like you. Fellows ought to have sisters, anyway. People ought to be born in pairs, male and female." She laughed and then with sudden seriousness: "But people ought to stand on their feet.
The whirl culminated in a collision with a chair, and the man and woman crashed to the floor in a wild struggling fall that extended itself across half the length of the room. Hans Nelson was half a second behind his wife in rising to the unexpected. His nerve processed and mental processes were slower than hers.
He eyed them doubtfully for a second, and then went crashing off through the brush in frank, undignified alarm. For a good three miles the travellers swung onward, up a slow long slope, and down a longer, slower one into the next valley.
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