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"That's just the reason I'm scared of her. She's always in a sort of post-graduate attitude of mind when I'm round, and it makes me feel young and foolish. Good-night. I'm going up to molest the boys." "Don't bother them long, Lizzie there's a good girl. John needs every minute." But Elizabeth had caught her cloak around her and was already fleeing up the second flight of stairs.
"The mass of these young people are possessed of good intentions and would respond to amusements less demoralizing and dangerous, if such were available at no greater cost than those now offered. "Our attitude toward music is typical of our carelessness toward all these things which make for common joy."
The power that moved her was too immense to be swayed by lesser things. His attitude no longer affected her, one way or another. It had ceased to count, so that she only wrenched from him this one great boon. And Rufus must have realised the fact, for he stood up sharply and backed against the door, releasing her. "You don't know what you're saying," he said gruffly. "I do I do!"
Roddy rose from the floor. He drew himself up, stretching out his arms in a crucified attitude, and grinned at her. "Do you suppose," he said, "I'd let you?" He grinned at Uncle Edward and Uncle Victor as they came in. "Uncle Victor," she said, "Why should Roddy go away? If it's Maggie, we don't really want her. I'll do Catty's work and he'll do the garden. So he can stay, can't he?"
As they disappeared Domini heard a faint shrieking in the distance. It was the music of the African hautboy. The night was marvellously dry and warm. The thickly growing trees in the garden scarcely moved. It was very still and very dark. Suzanne, standing at her window, looked like a shadow in her black dress. Her attitude was romantic.
The mill-owner had of late been experiencing a revolution of thought. His attitude toward Philip had grown more and more friendly. Philip welcomed the rich man's change of feeling toward him with an honest joy at the thought that the time might come when he would see his privilege and power, and use both to the glory of Christ's kingdom.
He heard then went quickly up to the girl where she stood in a somewhat dejected attitude near his easel. "Then it IS true!" he said "I heard it yesterday from an old journalist friend of mine, John Harrington but I couldn't quite believe it. Let me congratulate you on your brilliant success " "You do not care!" she said, almost in a whisper. "Oh, do I not?"
He never left us in doubt either as to the time or the place; and the same obligations of time and place, which Hals never shirked, seem to me to rest on the painter, if he elects to paint his sitter in any attitude except one of conventional repose.
And a clergyman who is not prepared to lay down the law dogmatically will not be of much use in a village school, though it behoves him all the more to be very careful what law he lays down. But unless both the clergyman and the doctor are in the attitude expressed by these speeches they are not fit for their work.
During all of these events the president of the manufacturing company first involved, steadfastly refused to have the situation submitted to arbitration, and this attitude naturally provoked much discussion.
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