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Whether they traded in brick godowns or on the muddy river bank; whether they reached after much or little; whether they made love under the shadows of the great trees or in the shadow of the cathedral on the Singapore promenade; whether they plotted for their own ends under the protection of laws and according to the rules of Christian conduct, or whether they sought the gratification of their desires with the savage cunning and the unrestrained fierceness of natures as innocent of culture as their own immense and gloomy forests, Nina saw only the same manifestations of love and hate and of sordid greed chasing the uncertain dollar in all its multifarious and vanishing shapes.
To those, indeed, who realized how deeply he felt these changes, how profoundly his notion of national happiness was bound up with a lovely and vanishing ideal, the prominent reflection was that the hopes and principles which maintained through all an underlying hope and trust in the future must have been potent indeed.
For physically his life, which could be taken away from him, was exactly like mine, held on the same terms and of the same vanishing quality. I would have smiled at my absurdity if all, even the most intimate, vestige of gaiety had not been crushed out of my heart by the intolerable weight of my love for Rita. It crushed, it overshadowed, too, it was immense.
She looked a little sullen for a moment and bored. "What's the matter with my giving a dance?" I asked. "Oh, will you?" cried Lucy, the sullen look vanishing beneath a radiant flash of child-like joy and enthusiasm. "Where will you give it? At Wilcox's?" "Anywhere you say." Fulton tossed his hands in a merry gesture of despair.
"I bought a pair of overalls at the store, as you suggested, Cloudy," put in Allison, waving a pair of blue jeans at her and vanishing also. Ellen Robinson stood mopping her eyes and staring out from the dining-room window not at the hills and sniffing. "I should think you'd stop them calling you that ridiculous name!" she snorted. "It isn't respectful. It sounds like making fun of the family."
The former was a representative, though a somewhat erratic one, of all that is best in the old type of Englishmen of gentle blood, which is now so rapidly vanishing, and of the class to which to a large extent this country owes her greatness.
"Unwomanly?" she cried. "Me unwomanly?" She snatched up the buggy whip and in her anger cut at him, but the lash fell short, striking one of the horses. The animal plunged at the sting and its companion also started. By the time Gale had them under control, Mrs. Burke was vanishing down the road in a cloud of dust.
I understand she is coming to-night." "Not I, I can't tell one of those girls from another," grumbled the Crane. "You know just how much I like girls. I don't mind helping get ready for this business, but I'd rather take a licking than come back here to-night. You'll see me vanishing around the corner and out of here at the very first chance. Girls are an awful nuisance anyway."
That's all I wanted to tell you." "I'll go and throttle him!" the young man almost howled. "Very well, go! Good-bye." She had stepped quickly to the door and had already opened it, vanishing as she had done the other time. "Francie, Francie!" he supplicated, following her into the passage. The door was not the one that led to the salon; it communicated with the other apartments.
"When this system of extortion was successfully launched the Trust determined to reward its patrons, as a means of pacifying them for reduced profits. "The reward came in the shape of discriminating against the store-keepers who still handled the goods made by the fast vanishing opposition concerns.
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