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It seemed as if the tower had come to rest again, but Westray's scruples were not so easily allayed this time, and he took measures for pushing forward the under-pinning of the south-east pier with all possible despatch. That inclination or predilection of Westray's for Anastasia, which he had been able to persuade himself was love, had passed away.
'Well, that I can't tell you, returned Ratsey, 'not wishing to waste thought on such idle matters, and having to examine this wall whether the floods have not so damaged it as to need under-pinning; so if you have time to gad about of a morning, get you back to my workshop and fetch me a plasterer's hammer which I have left behind, so that I can try this mortar.
Thus the evolutionary philosopher is compelled to relinquish one theory after another; the biologist knocks out the under-pinning, the geologists and physicists demolish most of the residue; yet the advocates of evolutionism adhere to their purpose to banish God from the universe.
He said it was a job for giants; clinging to the face of the precipice while you blew out and built on under-pinning, isn't it? the first construction track. But he declared the leaders were fine. They were where the danger was, in the blinding rain and swirling snow and the boys, as he called them, would always follow you."
He knew it all now, he said to himself he knew the secret of Anastasia's marriage, and of Sharnall's death, and of Martin's death. The foreman of the masons at work in the under-pinning of the south-east pier came to see Westray at nine o'clock the next morning.
Thousands of details about drainage, ventilation, shoring, architectural practice, lighting, subsoils, specifications, iron and steel construction, under-pinning, the properties of building materials, strains, thrusts, water-supply; thousands of details about his designs the designs in his 'testimonies of study, the design for his Thesis, and the designs produced during the examination itself all these peopled his brain; but they were in order; they were under control; they were his slaves.
The "Great Power" with his devilish cunning, had been before them; he had spiked the endless chain so that it could not move. And now he struck away the under-pinning of a few of the supports, so that the wagons could not be launched upon him by hand. This was no delirium; no one had ever yet seen delirium manifest itself in such a way!
The "Great Power" with his devilish cunning, had been before them; he had spiked the endless chain so that it could not move. And now he struck away the under-pinning of a few of the supports, so that the wagons could not be launched upon him by hand. This was no delirium; no one had ever yet seen delirium manifest itself in such a way!
The hole was filled; but another hole, from which Johnnie had taken the dirt, as large as the first, seriously threatened the under-pinning of the building. Ajax swore. Johnnie looked at me, as he drawled out: "The boss told me to git the dirt wheer 'twas mos' handy." Ajax grinned. "I see. It was the boss' fault, not yours. Now then, Johnnie, the work must be done all over again."
Yet it may be questioned whether he would have arrived at the goal intact, had it not been for the timely splitting of an under-pinning of the wagon, which caused a sudden collapse in the bows of the storm-tossed bark, and obliged the travellers to descend while yet half a mile distant from their journey's end.
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