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But mere digestive tissue is not enough for digestion. Muscles are needed to draw the food to the mouth, to keep the digestive sack in contact with it, and for other purposes. A little higher they are used to enable the animal to go in search of its food. They are still, however, more or less entirely subservient to digestion.
One of them, clad in turban of gold tissue, short blue jacket lavishly decorated with gold, and crimson trousers, bade the rest dismount. He was a tall man, a handsome figure in his fine array. He wore a sword with hilt inlaid with gold, the scabbard covered with crimson velvet; and in his girdle was stuck a knife with agate handle, and a small Moorish dagger ornamented with gold and silver.
All their apology throughout has been a clumsy tissue of self-contradictory lies, and their occasional hypocrisy has been hastily pretended and ill-conceived. The particular contention against us that we were betraying the cause of civilization by supporting the barbarous Slav does not come very convincingly from them if their apostle is Nietzsche, while the Russian prophet is Tolstoy.
It was stoutly wrapped, tightly corded, and profusely sealed, but with the sharp point of an eraser the general slit the fastenings, tore off the wrapper, and felt rather than saw, that a bundle of letters, rolled in tissue paper and tied with ribbon, ribbon long since faded and wrinkled, lay within.
The planes of his tanned face showed that he feared neither exposure to the elements nor exposure to violence; it was seamed with fine wrinkles and the thin white lines that betray scar tissue. His mouth was heavy-lipped, but firm, and the lines around it showed that it was unused to smiling.
That is was Cyrus, not Darius the Median, who took it. That all the Babylonian names in Daniel are absurdly misspelt and quite strange to the writer. That the writer described the Chaldeans in a way that no writer could have done before the time of Alexander the Great. The book is a tissue of errors, as we find by authentic documents and by reading the real Babylonian names on the tablets."
His story was found to be a confused tissue of falsehoods; and after being repeatedly interrogated, and attempting to escape, and to forward letters surreptitiously to his "uncle," Louis XVIII., he was removed to the prison of Rouen as the son of the Widow Phillipeaux, calling himself Charles de Navarre.
But the pleasures and pains of the printed book are not real, and are to reality like Japanese flowers made of coloured bits of tissue paper to the living fragrant flowers that bloom to-day and perish to-morrow; they are a simulacrum, a mockery, and present to us a pale phantasmagoric world, peopled with bloodless men and women that chatter meaningless things and laugh without joy.
"He is Russian. Look at his size." "But his shoes!" triumphantly. "They are American, little one." The third girl had not spoken; she was wrapping in tissue a great golden rose made for the hair. She placed it in a box carefully. "I think he is of the police," she said, "or a spy. There is much talk of war." "Foolishness! Does a police officer sigh always? Or a spy have such sadness in his face?
"She is my friend! my dearest friend!" she said, in a shaky voice. "And I believe in her, and admire her with all my heart!" "I know and I am sorry. Her speech this evening all the latter part of it was the speech of an Anarchist. And the first half was a tissue of misstatements. I happen to know something about the facts she dealt with." "Of course you take a different view!"
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