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When he visited Steve's office in the first flush of Steve's success, to ask the thousandth favour from him, and spied Trudy Burrows in all her lemon-kid booted, pink-chiffon waisted, red-haired loveliness as virile and bewitching as any one Gaylord's pale little mind could picture he proved himself a "true democrat," as he boasted at the club, and offered her his hand in marriage in short order.
I tried to take in the ensemble. In vain! Nothing but the face and figure of Winifred crowned with seaweed as in the Raxton photograph could stay for the thousandth part of a second upon my eyes. 'Wilderspin, I said, 'I cannot do the picture justice at this moment. I must see it again after I have seen her. Where is she? Can I not see her now? 'You cannot. 'Can I not see her to-day?
The thousandth, the exception, to whom, like Mavis, such a surrender is a matter of supreme moment, only suffers tortures of remorse when threatened by the loss of the man's love or by other inconvenient but natural consequences of sexual temerity.
When a Roman emperor celebrated the thousandth anniversary of the founding of Rome, two thousand gladiators appeared in the Colosseum, thirty-two elephants, and numbers of wild animals. Not far from the Colosseum begins one of the oldest and most famous roads ever trodden by the foot of man the Appian Way.
A frightful cry in such a place as that! Something flashed up brightly I saw flames about something in the ring the crowd arose from the benches women screamed men yelled. "Sit still, Flora!" I heard young Knickerbocker say, sternly. I thought of a million things in the thousandth part of a second of the flaming canvas, the deadly crush, the wild beasts, terrified and breaking from their cages.
For we are not quite the same as we were yesterday, though our work may be the same, and the difference in us makes it in some measure different. But what mainly makes even the most well-beaten paths new at the thousandth time of traversing them is our ignorance of what may be waiting round the next turn of the road.
He was standing at his office window now, staring out disconsolately over the sloping lawns of the capitol grounds, mottled with thin patches of snow, which had contrived to withstand the recent thaw, and he was telling himself, for the thousandth time, the dispiriting fact that, as a force for good or evil in the destiny of his state, he was no more significant than his stenographer's Remington or his secretary's roll-top desk.
Nothing evil was ever said of any man which was not true, his worst enemies could not say a thousandth part of the evil that is in him. "Praise now humbles me, it does not elate me; did the world praise Jesus? and what right have we to take this praise of men, when it is due to Him?
"Tell me your story," answered Pericles; "if I find you have known the thousandth part of my endurance, you have borne your sorrows like a man, and I have suffered like a girl; yet you do look like Patience gazing on kings' graves, and smiling Extremity out of act. Tell me your name, my most kind virgin? Recount your story, I beseech you. Come, sit by me."
Now her eye would flash with interest and her face become flushed and now her cheek would pale, and her form seem to shrink into half its dimensions. Oh! who can imagine one thousandth part of all her sufferings on that awful occasion?
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