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The older women followed to share sight of the miracle, and all stood looking from one thing to another, some with their hands behind them as though to thwart the temptation to touch, and all saying merely: "My! My!" None of them had ever seen a piano before and June must play the "shiny contraption" and sing a song.
It was all he could get out of his throat, and it was all that was expected of him. He hated to give thanks and he hated to be thanked. The grandeur of the present flattered him. Nevertheless he regarded it as essentially absurd in its pretentiousness. The pipes were A1, but could a man carry about a huge contraption like that?
"Oh, not at all," Helena said nervously. She sat down on the other side of the big rosewood centre-table, glancing with worried eyes at Lloyd Pryor. "Move that lamp contraption," commanded Mr. Wright. "I like to see my hostess!" And Helena pushed the astral lamp from the centre of the table so that his view was unobstructed. "Is he a nuisance with his talk about his drama?" Mr.
“Yes,” growls the devil, as he climbs aboard. “That’s two up. Two to you and one to play. Now, what’s your next contraption?” “Mr. Devil,” said the old man, looking very innocent, “you see, I’ve ranged my chain ready for letting go anchor. Now Chips is forrard there, and when I sing out, he’ll let the anchor go.
When he returned four days later, he astonished Johnson beyond measure by remarking so soon as the shop project was reopened: "I've took a little contraption at Fishbourne, O' Man, that I fancy suits me better." He paused, and then added in a manner, if possible, even more offhand: "Oh! and I'm going to have a bit of a nuptial over at Stamton with one of the Larkins cousins."
"Sometimes I pick up an odd no-'count contraption that makes me a bit of money, and more times I'm stung and lose on it. It's all a gamble, of course, and I'm that way like to take a gambling chance on anything that strikes my fancy like that burner of yours." "Yes," Graham returned: "the gas arrangement." "It's a curious idea quite different from the one I told you about; but I kinda took to it.
"I reckon Miss Prissy is what you call a kinder crank," answered Mother Mayberry as she paused at the foot of the steps. "A married woman have got to be the hub of a family-wheel, but a old maid can be the outside crank that turns the whole contraption backwards if she has a mind to.
"They're sure an amusing enough contraption honey," said he, "but what makes you stand out there in the hot sun staring at them that way? It's cooler on the porch." "I don't know," said Estrella, helplessly, turning her slow, vacant gaze on him. Suddenly she shivered in a strong physical revulsion. "I don't know!" she cried with passion.
Freshett, "and these men seemed to think the contrivance they was sellin' perfectly grand, an' like to be an aid to the soul's salvation. Nice as it seemed, an' convincin' as they talked, I couldn't get the consent of my mind to order, until I knowed if you was goin' to kiver your dead with the contraption.
For one thing it adopts an impersonal criterion; for another it adopts an earthly criterion; for a third it is habituating men to think quantitatively. To be sure the ideal confuses excellence with size, happiness with speed, and human nature with contraption. Yet the same motives are at work which have ever actuated any moral code, or ever will.
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