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All three of the Tolstoys turned eagerly toward Bee. "Do tell me about it," said the count. "There is very little to tell. I simply went and stood in line and cast my ballot." "But was there no shooting, no bribery, no excitement?" cried the countess. "Do they go dressed as you are now?" "No, I dressed much better. I wore my best Paris gown, and drove down in my victoria.
"But you are here in forma pauperis," Cyril interposed, smilingly. "How is that? If we are willing to pay if Mr. Thrall's credit is undeniably good " "Mr. Thrall's credit is not good in Altruria; you can pay here only in one currency, in the sweat of your faces." "You want us to be Tolstoys, I suppose," Mrs. Thrall said, contemptuously.
An article on gasoline-propelled railway coaches, for The Illustrated World. A short contribution on scientific municipal management of public utilities in a small town, for Collier's. A character sketch about a local philanthropic money lender, for Leslie's and the Kansas City Star. An account of the Kansas Amish, a sect something like the Tolstoys, for Kansas City, St.
But your Ibsens and your Zolas and your Shaws and your Tolstoys have not even got so far." Morning broke in bitter silver along the grey and level plain; and almost as it did so Turnbull and MacIan came out of a low, scrubby wood on to the empty and desolate flats. They had walked all night.
It would be surprising, therefore, if there had been no Shelleys or Sidneys to define the relation between poetry and science, or Tolstoys to speculate on the nature of all art; and we should wonder if we did not everywhere hear intelligent people discussing the relation of utility and goodness to beauty, or asking what makes a poem or a picture great.
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