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He saw that it would be dangerous for him to try to talk with his mind in that high tremulous whirl. The old man clung to him, silent, too, for a teeming moment. "Now God above, why not Crit Madeira tell you that tr-r-ue way of things?" shouted Bernique at last fiercely. "Why not?" The two men looked into each other's eyes, Steering bearing up the old man, who clutched him feverishly.
"When Crit Madeira, the Colossus of Canaan, accomplishes what he surely shall accomplish, when the roar of mill machinery begins to reverberate through the hills of the future Joplin, arousing the vast energies and resources of We-all, Pewee and Big Wheat, let us be generous. If there was a sponge, kicker, shirk or drone, let us cover his selfishness with the mantle of charity.
They drew rein before a rickety two-story frame building and Bruce lifted his shoulders shudderingly. A man came out on the hotel porch, said "Howdy," and waited. "Say," Piney in a lower tone, voiced a notion that evidently drifted in to him on the high tide of his sympathy, "why don't you ride over to Mist' Crit Madeira's? Taint so far. I'll show you the way.
Many a general has been beaten by having too many troops. If books came in like recruits one would not turn them away, but would stow them in proper quarters, and use the best of them, taking care not to bring up a force too soon which would be more useful on another occasion. Pet. I have a great variety of books. Crit. A variety of paths will often deceive the traveller. Pet.
Ah! but these things are not for sale, like books, and if they were I don't suppose there would be many buyers, for books do make a covering for the walls, but those other wares are only clothing for the soul, and are invisible and therefore neglected. Pet. I have books which help me in my studies. Crit. Take care that they do not prove a hindrance.
"Yes," replied a member of the Grange group, all of whom rose sociably, "Crit and Miss Sally," the young man laughed again, softly, as though he could not help it, "Crit and Miss Sally jes went into the bank; I don't reckin they've come out again." "Miss Sally's come out again," interposed another Granger, "because I seen her."
Neither of us can interfere with the judicial gentry, though we may know that they stink to high heaven with the stench of blood. After a conviction, you can pardon, but a pardon won't help the dead. I don't see that you can do much of anything, Crit." "I don't know yet what I can do, but I can tell you I'm going to do something," said the Governor. "You can just begin watching me.
Dog-oned ef th'aint abaout ev'thing tha'. Got the cote-haouse an' all, the relroad an' all Miss Sally Madeira, Mist' Crit Madeira's daughter, she lives tha'." It had gone like that every time. Not once in the last twenty miles had Steering exchanged a word with man or woman without this sort of reference to Canaan and, collaterally, to Miss Sally Madeira.
La Serre: Essais Hist. et Crit. sur la Marine Française. Lapeyrouse-Bonfils: Hist. de la Marine Française. Jurien de la Gravière: Guerres Maritimes. Since the above was written, the secretary of the navy, in his report for 1889, has recommended a fleet which would make such a blockade as here suggested very hazardous.
When the man and the girl had gone into the Bank of Canaan, the group at the Grange stopped gambling on the incoming teams and talked less drowsily. "Looks like that girl gets purdier and purdier." "Mighty pleasant ways she keeps. Never gone back on her raisin'. Never got too good for Mizzourah." "As far as I go, I like her ways better'n her pappy's ways." "Crit is a little toploftical."
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