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"Put that way, my conduct needs correcting with a horsewhip; but happily there are other points of view. That is I mean Really, Miss Manning, I am absurdly tongue-tied, but I do beg of you to hear my explanation." "Have you one?" "Yes. It might convince any one but you.
The gloom of the afternoon was excluded by heavy gold-colored curtains, and the only, but quite sufficient light, filtered through an opalescent globe upheld by a twisted bronze female of the modern Munich school, that looked like nothing so much as Alice elongating in Wonderland. Isabel suddenly felt herself and her organdie absurdly out of place in this room with its enchantress atmosphere.
At present the spiritual initiation of youths and maidens is left to the chances of some happy accident, and usually it is of a purely cerebral character which cannot be perfectly wholesome, and is at the best absurdly incomplete. This cerebral initiation commonly occurs to the youth through the medium of literature.
Life is a battle and for every real conquest man has had to summate and focus all his energies, so that anger is the acme of the manifestation of Schopenhauer's will to live, achieve and excel. Hiram Stanley rather absurdly described it as an epoch when primitive man first became angry and fought, overcoming the great quaternary carnivora and made himself the lord of creation.
He never bothered his head as to what the other man thought of him, his ignorance, or his awkwardness, simply because to him the other man was nothing but an element in his problem. So in such circumstances he learned fast. Once introduce the human element, however, and his absurdly sensitive self-consciousness asserted itself. He was, as Jackson expressed it, backed off the skidway.
Who had uncovered him in that unceremonious way, leaving him perished with cold? No wonder he had dreamt of that chilly wind, numbing his body as he stood naked by the pool. Had he by any chance kicked the coverlet off in his sleep, as he engaged in that dream-struggle with the absurdly impossible Buskin-Lubin who had attempted to pitch him into the dark water?
She only had time for that one glance at the helpless, miserable child, before she climbed up the steep car-steps. She found an empty seat, and shrugged close to the window. She did not think very much of what she was doing. She thought more of the absurdly uncomfortable child, over-swathed in clothing, and over-disciplined with mother-love, she could not have told why.
Before entering the presence of host and hostess, Ethelberta contrived to exchange a few words with her father. 'In excellent time, he whispered, full of paternal pride at the superb audacity of her situation here in relation to his. 'About half of them are come. 'Mr. Neigh? 'Not yet; he's coming. 'Lord Mountclere? 'Yes. He came absurdly early; ten minutes before anybody else, so that Mrs.
A frontier line is always a line that carries an electric current of disputes. There were some questions of refugees, followers of Ericson, who had crossed the frontier, and whose surrender the new Government of Gloria had absurdly demanded.
She was smitten dumb by his tone, and hardly dared look at him as he sat propped up in bed. However, though he was feeling absurdly well, there was a good deal of bravado in his tone and manner, for he ate but little, and soon sank back on the bed. "I feel better when my head is low," he explained, in a faint voice.
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