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A counter-attraction to the public-house, an entertainment provider of a delightful order, a club, a home, and a Bethel all rolled into one is the Soldiers' Home, the greatest boon that the Christian Church has ever given to the soldier, and one which he estimates at its full value.
He explained it all to me once, but I was never particularly brilliant in such matters and so most of it has escaped me. As I recall it the difference is due in some part to the counter-attraction of that portion of the earth's crust directly opposite the spot upon the face of Pellucidar at which one's calculations are being made.
In the case of Devon and Somerset the absence of the counter-attraction of large provincial cities drives almost the whole of its migratory folk to London, whereas in Yorkshire and Lancashire and the chief Midland manufacturing counties the attraction of their own industrial centres acts more powerfully in their immediate neighbourhood than the magic of London itself.
In only a year afterwards as an example of the progress which a resolute woman can make she was familiar with zoophyte fossils, and had succeeded in dissecting the nervous system of a bee. Was there no counter-attraction in her married life? Very little. Mr. Vere felt no sympathy with his wife's scientific pursuits. On her husband's death, did she find no consolation in her son?
The newspaper placards that had cried "wolf!" so often, cried "wolf!" now in vain. Now as Bert and Grubb bawled their chorus for the third time, they became aware of a very big, golden-brown balloon low in the sky to the north-west, and coming rapidly towards them. "Jest as we're gettin' hold of 'em," muttered Grubb, "up comes a counter-attraction. Go it, Bert!"
At present no intoxicants are sold or prepared on the estate, and if ever the trustees should see fit to permit this, it is to be as a co-operative undertaking, the profits of which shall "be devoted to securing for the village community recreation and counter-attraction to the liquor trade as ordinarily conducted."
In fact they meant it to be a wonderful day, and everything conspired to make it so. The sun shone gloriously from a clear sky, and not a breath of wind disturbed the calmness of the morning, but entrancing as the scene was they did not stay to contemplate it, because for once they were going to have a really substantial breakfast, and this was an irresistible counter-attraction.
Even the fat man and his improvised still were eclipsed by the counter-attraction. His very earnestness in disclaiming the honors thrust upon him added enormously to his popularity. The more clumsy and awkward he was, and the more furiously he blushed and protested, the more attention he received. "So naïf!" "So perfectly natural!"
I am aware that its members refuse to turn out in cold weather; that they do not turn out in wet weather; that when the weather is really fine, it is impossible to get them together; that the slightest counter-attraction, a hockey match, a sacred concert, goes to their heads at once. There was a time when I was the newly appointed occupant of a college chair and had to address the Owl's Club.
" but just then a counter-attraction drew the white company back into the house. An old French priest with sandalled feet and a dirty face had arrived.
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