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The steps had reached the upper floor now, and she cowered in a trembling heap in the middle of her bed waiting for the door to open and let her father enter. But they continued down the hall without so much as pausing before her door, and now as her heart began to beat normally again, she heard Aunt Maria's voice saying, "There's a dreadful clutter to move if we take everything.
Here in the peace and quiet of the pinking day this inroad of commercialism struck Steve suddenly both as slaughter and sacrilege; among the stalwart standing patriarchs and their bowed brethren he sat his horse staring frowningly at the little ugly clutter of buildings housing the invaders. "My beloved old granddad had his nerve with him," he grunted as he rode on into the tiny settlement.
He would light a fresh cigar, give the editorial chair a hitch, and begin his work in front of a fresh expanse of table, with no clutter of the past to disturb the new day's litter. "The motive power of his work was enthusiasm.
"Let's play markers," he suggested. "Chips do everlastingly clutter up the table....If it's agreeable to you-all?" "I'm willing," answered Hal Campbell. "Let mine run at five hundred." "Mine, too," answered Harnish, while the others stated the values they put on their own markers, French Louis, the most modest, issuing his at a hundred dollars each.
Howland laughed, though she sobered instantly. "But there must be something, some one that you enjoy," she suggested. Kate shook her head wearily. "Not a thing, not a person," she replied; adding with a whimsical twinkle, "they're all like the dishes, Aunt Ellen, bound to accumulate crumbs and scraps, and do nothing but clutter up." "Oh, Kate, Kate," remonstrated Mrs.
Dry-eyed now and clear-headed, he sat one winter afternoon against his chosen background the swarm and clutter of a law court. His brief-cases were packed. His law books had been bundled back to his office. He was waiting beside a vivid-faced young woman who sat twisting a tear-damp handkerchief in her hands.
The difference between Mr. Cabell and the popular romancers who in all ages clutter the scene and for whom he has nothing but amused contempt is that they are unconscious dupes of the demiurge whereas he, aware of its ways and its devices, employs it almost as if it were some hippogriff bridled by him in Elysian pastures and respectfully entertained in a snug Virginian stable.
It's shaded by papyrus And reeds and grasses tall, Just a little land-locked harbor Beside the garden wall. "They talked of water-lilies And lotus pink and white We didn't dare to say a word But we wished with all our might, For how could we manoeuvre The submarine we've got, If they go and clutter up the place With all that sort of rot.
It is to be hoped that the Christians will some day unite and clean out all the dreary offerings and knickknacks that clutter the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Moslems hold the Mosque of Omar second in sanctity only to the great mosque in the holy city of Mecca. It is curious, therefore, that they should not object to Christians entering it.
"Gents," he said, "I reckon you've come clean with me. You ain't my meat and I ain't goin' to clutter up your way. Besides" even in the dull moonshine they caught the humorous glint of his eyes "a friend is a friend, and I'll say I'm glad that you didn't step into the shady side of the law while Barry was gettin' away."
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