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I thought I was nodt like these beople down here, when I gome down once to look aroundt; I thought I must be somethings else, and zo I zaid I better take myself in time, and I gome here among my brothers the becears and the thiefs!" A noise made itself heard in the next room, as if the door were furtively opened, and a faint sound of tiptoeing and of hands clawing on a table. "Thiefs!"
The explanation is a little vague, as his biographer suggests, but it is picturesque, and there can be little doubt that two somethings do come in contact that produce a sweating when it rains or is foggy. More than that, the philosophy is simple and comprehensive, which Goethe said was the main matter in such things.
"Small-pox, think?" "I do not know, genteelmen! I do not know what he die of!" "Measles, likely?" "May be may be I do not know I think he die of somethings." "Parents living?" "Im-poseeeble!" "Ah which is the bust and which is the pedestal?" "Santa Maria! zis ze bust! zis ze pedestal!" "Ah, I see, I see happy combination very happy combination, indeed.
Too late hours and too hard work on the brain isn't good for any man! But tell me, sir, how did you pass the night? Well, I hope? But my heart! sir, I was glad when Mrs. Dempster told me this morning that you were all right and sleeping sound when she went in. 'Oh, I was all right, he answered smiling, 'the "somethings" didn't worry me, as yet.
I was just beginning to think within myself how very worthy it was of the said subaltern to take out a section of his platoon and practise them in some particular type of advance in open order, when, looking more closely at the line of backs, I noticed that the men on the extreme right and left were carrying something slung over their shoulders. I then saw that these somethings were hares.
'There is a feel in the water, said Frithiof, 'that I cannot understand. I think that we run downhills or somethings. She steers bad this morning. Nobody seems to know the laws that govern the pulse of the big waters.
The pilot's report read: Five "somethings," which were thin and smooth on the bottom and rough-appearing on top, were seen silhouetted against the sunset shortly after the plane took off from Boise at 8:04P.M. We saw them clearly. We followed them in a northeasterly direction for about 45 miles. They finally disappeared. We were unable to tell whether they outsped us or disintegrated.
"Small-pox, think?" "I do not know, genteelmen! I do not know what he die of!" "Measles, likely?" "May be may be I do not know I think he die of somethings." "Parents living?" "Im-poseeeble!" "Ah which is the bust and which is the pedestal?" "Santa Maria! zis ze bust! zis ze pedestal!" "Ah, I see, I see happy combination very happy combination, indeed.
She was surrounded by all those indescribable somethings and nothings which mark the rich and well-bred traveller, and her face was queenly not sweet and pretty like a doll's face but handsome and stylish, and strikingly impressive, so that no man could look at her once without turning to look again; yet I had not been in her presence a minute, before I found, to my utter disgust, that the old creature was as vain of her charms as a spoiled girl, and gloried in the attention which she was conscious her face everywhere attracted.
The "airy nothings" of imagination prove to be the most enduring somethings of the world's literature; and the last lightness of heart may go with the purest truth of soul and the most precious virtue of intelligence.
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