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"Burman's drawn close up to a million already," said Percival to Uncle Peter, "and now he wants me to stand ready for another million." "Is Burman," asked Uncle Peter, "that young fellow that had a habit of standin' pat on a pair of Jacks, and then bettin' everybody off the board?" "Yes, that was Burman." "Well, I liked his ways. I should say he could do you a whole lot of good in a corn deal."
"Leh Shin," he said, speaking in a commanding whisper, "turn thyself into an ear, and listen for me while I search." Leh Shin nodded silently, half-stupidly it seemed, and went on tip-toes to the door that opened into the passage. All the power of the past was over him, and though he heard the Burman's curt command he hardly seemed to understand what he meant.
It is because man is so much higher than the animal that he can and must observe towards animals the very greatest care, feel for them the very greatest compassion, be good to them in every way he can. The Burman's motto should be Noblesse oblige; he knows the meaning, if he knows not the words.
Jack picked it up with a cry of recognition. "Look here," he said; "the Burman's hit the trail all right. Here's one of the governor's empty tobacco tins. He's never smoked anything else in my knowledge of him." Jack held in his hand an empty tin which bore the name of a brand of Carolina tobacco.
The Burman's head was sunk between his shoulders. Next moment suspicion became certainty. A gentle snore reached Jack's ears, and he knew that Me Dain was sleeping at his post. Up sprang Jack at once, and crossed to the sleeping man. He was about to shake the drowsy watchman by the shoulder, when he paused and looked intently at the slope below.
Burman's intentions, he was aware that there was an obstacle to his being huggingly genial, even candidly genial with her, until he could deal out further news, corroborative and consecutive, to show the action of things as progressive.
And when we get to five minutes we are on the descent, rapidly counting our way out of the house, into the fresh air, where we were half an hour back, among those happy beasts in the pleasant Gardens! Mrs. Burman's eyelids shut. 'I said you would come. Victor started to the fire-screen. 'Your sight requires protection. She dozed. 'And Natalia Dreighton! she next said.
He had only been saved from a fall into the yawning gulf below by the promptness of Jack, who had flung himself on his knees and whipped his hands under the Burman's arms, and held him up. Warned by this misadventure, they moved slowly and carefully along the narrow track which now lay before them. "Take care, take care," said Mr. Haydon, "this road is worse than the others.
I have tried always to illustrate only the central thought, and not the innumerable divergencies, because only so can a great or strange thought be made clear. Later, when the thought is known, then it is easy to stray into the byways of thought, always remembering that they are byways, wandering from a great centre. For the Burman's life and belief is one great whole.
Burman's medical man, might tell the lady tales that would irritate her bag of venom. Rarely though Fenellan was the critic on his friend, the shadow cast over his negligent hedonism by Victor's boiling pressure, drove him into the seat of judgement. As a consequence, he was rather a dull table-guest in the presence of Dr.
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