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A junction might thus be effected with the system of M. Bergson, which would lead to this curious result: that pragmatic logic would be the method of intelligence, because intelligence is merely a method, useful in practice, for the symbolic and improper representation of reality; while another non-pragmatic method sympathy and dream would alone be able to put us in possession of direct knowledge and genuine truth.
But the tree episode, I think, was the most curious of all except, perhaps, the incident with the children which I shall mention in a moment for its closeness to reality was so unforgettable. Outside the east window of my room stood a giant wellingtonia on the lawn, its head rising level with the upper sash.
Nevertheless it makes one happier to have prospects, if they are far away. I used to; but they never came to nothing, unless it was to bring me way out here." The log school-house was a curious place. The children's benches consisted of split logs on pegs, without backs. The sides of the building were logs and sods, and the roof was constructed of logs and pine boughs.
"How very curious!" said Percy. "When I get home to my father and mother, I must tell them all about it. They will be much interested, and I hope, Lionel, that you will come and see them." "I should like to do so very much, if Hendricks will let me," said Lionel.
"Never mind my character," I answered him; "all you've got to do is to leave Vera Michailovna alone. There'll be no wrecking of homes, unless you are the wrecker." He put his hand on my arm again. "Listen, Durward," he said, "I'll tell you a little story. I'm a doctor you know, and many curious things occur within my province.
And this answer did the perplexed mind little good. Lucy followed every word with curious attention, but at the end slowly shook her head. "It is not that. Lady Randolph, if there was something that was your duty before you were married, and that is still and always your duty, a sacred promise you had made; and your husband said no, you must not do it tell me what you would have done?
And now it may seem a curious thing, but I'm going to say a little more about love. A strange time, you'll perhaps say, when those poor people were crouching together in that horrible vault, expecting their death moment by moment. But that's why it was, and not from any want of retiring modesty.
For the lady of the establishment was curious in the natural history and habits of the animal called Governess, and encouraged her daughters to report thereon whenever occasion served; which was, in reference to all parties concerned, very laudable, improving, and pleasant. It is a melancholy fact; but it must be related, that Mr Pinch's sister was not at all ugly.
We were curious to see what sort of a creature had made it. Perhaps it might be some animal unknown to naturalists, some new species; and we might one day have the merit of being the first to describe it. "We had not far to go: a hundred yards, or so, brought us in sight of a grove of young cotton-woods; and these we saw at a glance were `barked' by a porcupine.
It is curious that a bird so distinctly foreign, plumed for the Asiatic sun, should fit so well with English meads. His splendid neck immediately pleases, pleases the first time it is seen, and on the fiftieth occasion. I see these every day, and always stop to look at them; the colour excites the sense of beauty in the eye, and the shape satisfies the idea of form.
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