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Marshall-Smith, gleaming gold and ivory in her evening-dress of amber satin, sat silent, startled by the suddenness with which the whole astonishing question had come up. There was in her face more than one hint that the proposition opened a welcome door of escape to her....
Oh, I did want to go with him so much! "'This, said I, 'is most astonishing. "She leaned enthusiastically towards me, her lovely face aglow. "'Isn't it? she said; 'and to think that you and papa and I are the only people in the whole world who know this! "To be included in such a triology was very delightful. "'Papa is writing the whole thing I mean about the currents.
They assumed that it was the mouth of a small river. The Second Engineer brought back the astonishing information that this opening in the coast was the gateway to a channel that in his judgment split the island into two distinct sections.
These latter played euchre in the smoking room day and night, drank astonishing quantities of raw whisky without being in the least affected by it, and were the happiest people I think I ever saw. And then there was "the old Admiral " a retired whaleman. He was a roaring, terrific combination of wind and lightning and thunder, and earnest, whole-souled profanity.
Much of what I have said of the streets of New York applies, in my superficial opinion, for instance, to the streets of Chicago. It is well known that to the Chinaman all Westerners look alike. No tourist on his first visit to a country so astonishing as the United States is very different from a Chinaman; the tourist should reconcile himself to that deep truth.
It was an astonishing revelation of character, that glance. I think the Swede designed it so, for he was about to make me a momentous offer. "Ay ship you by easy ship, shore-going ship. No vatch, no heavy veather, good times, ja. You thump mine roonar, you take his voomans, so you take his yob. Ja? You ship by the Knitting Swede?"
And he knew everybody, young and old, at doorways, in the fields or gardens, and had for every one a hail and a greeting. How he enjoyed it all, and his self-consciousness added to his pleasure, as he swung along in his well-fitting city clothes, broad-shouldered and erect it is astonishing how much a tailor can do for a man who responds to his efforts.
Drink, drink, drink, and, with equal frequency and nearly as much openness, the reverse or diuretic side of the fact. This latter was too astonishing and too public a fact to go unmentioned.
Thank Heaven, they didn't know, and never would. "Did you ever read the report of the inquest on Colonel Crofton?" asked Miss Pendarth meaningly. "I hadn't the chance. I was still in Australia," he said shortly. "If you'll wait a moment I'll bring it to you," was the, to him, astonishing reply.
But it is worth mentioning that in the historical evolution we have always got better things than we sought or imagined, developments on a much grander scale. History is strewn with the wreck of popular delusions, but always in place of them have come realizations more astonishing than the wildest fancies of the dreamers.
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