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He stroked the girl's shimmering draperies, not thinking of what he was saying, smiling at her, delighted with her beauty, with her nearness to him, with this brief snatch of intimate talk. "Ungrateful yourself! What am I doing but wearing my nose off on the grindstone Dr. Melton threatens nervous prostration every day so's to show off your pretty trash to the best advantage.
Normally, there should be things moving constantly in both directions big wire baskets full of parcels for delivery, and trash containers, going out, and bales and crates and cases of merchandise, and empty delivery baskets and trash containers coming in. He pointed this out to Yetsko. "Sure," the big Literates' guards sergeant nodded.
Garbage wagons and trash carts were the only vehicles admitted within the patrolled section. The water supply fortunately remained unimpaired. Another period of unseasonable cold followed Tuesday's snowstorm and increased the already long list of sufferers from the storm. Paying last rites occupied the time of thousands of persons on Wednesday.
"My dear young fellow, never do you buy trash in these trains. Here you are with your coat full of what's Gadsden's absurd razor concoctions strut strop bother! And Chinese paste buttons. Last summer, on the Northern Pacific, the man offered your cat's-eyes to me as native gems found exclusively in Dakota.
My noble fellow! You reject advancement, and earn yourself an unjust reputation for mutinous conduct, because you are too generous to be given a step above mine in the regiment." "Who's been a-telling you that trash, sir?" retorted Rake, with ferocity. "No matter who. It is no trash.
There was something thrilling in the jostling crowds, and the electric signs flashing out one by one down the long gay thoroughfare. Post-Office Square, at the end of the day, was always littered with papers and trash. In its center was a battered, weather kiosk, and facing it, was a huge electric advertisement which indulged in the glittering generality, that "You get what you pay for."
The men worked famously, but I much fear they will be laid up with fever if kept at such an unhealthy task. To-day a force of 700 men cut about a mile and a half. They are obliged to slash through with swords and knives, and then to pull out the greater portion of the grass and vegetable trash; this is piled like artificial banks on either side upon the thick floating surface of vegetation.
Poor authors! toil your fingers off, and spin your brains out! be as wise as Solomon, or witty as Sheridan! your work is vanity and vexation of spirit, unless the reader's brain choose to receive and vivify the hieroglyphs of your ideas; think yourselves successful because a great man praises you, and to-morrow that man is twisted with dyspepsia, or some woman passes him without a smile, and your sparkling sketch, your pathetic poem are declared trash!
And Alan laughed teasingly. "How do you know I haven't told truly? But, to be honest, I think I'd go into partnership with either Polly or you. I'd like to be a first-class doctor, or else a great author." "Poems?" inquired Polly sympathetically. "Poems! No; nor novels either, nor any such trash as that," returned the boy scornfully.
Laura will tell you the rest." Graciella was tearfully indignant. "It was a shame!" she declared. "Peter was a good old nigger, and it wouldn't have done anybody any harm to leave him there. I'd rather be buried beside old Peter than near any of the poor white trash that dug him up so there! I'm so sorry you're going away; but I hope, sometime," she added stoutly, "to see you in New York!
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