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I had never felt more normal, mentally and physically; and the only unusual fact in my situation that of having assured the happiness of an amiable girl did not seem of a kind to summon unclean spirits about my pillow. But there were the eyes still looking at me ... "I shut mine, and tried to evoke a vision of Alice Nowell's.
"Let us go on," she said. "I did not know. You see, we have never danced together before. I had not thought of you in that way." She ceased to speak, being content to dance. Linforth for his part was content to watch her, to hold her as something very precious, and to evoke a smile upon her lips when her eyes met his. "I had not thought of you in that way!" she had said.
This is one, and some people seem to think that it is a very low and unworthy one, and one which we should never urge upon men. But there are a side of the divine nature and a mode of the divine government which properly evoke fear. God's moral government, His justice and retribution, are facts. Fear is an inevitable and natural consequence of feeling that His justice is antagonistic to us.
And she will sing with you." In another moment they were all grouped round the ancient instrument of Charles the Second's day, and Cicely, keeping her hands well pressed on the jingling ivory keys, managed to evoke from them something like a faint, far-off organ-like sound. Falteringly at first, and then more clearly and steadily, as Cicely's full round voice assisted them, the children sang
It is far more wholesome and encouraging to look upon many disasters that befall us as opportunities to show a little spirit, to evoke the courage which does not come by indolent prosperity, to increase our sympathy, to enlarge our experience, to make things clearer to us, to develop our mind and heart, to free us from material temptations.
Nothing, of course, could astonish him; nothing was ever news to him; nothing could evoke his applause. "Ah," says Tim, to whom this is all news, "I always thought there was something of the kind up. For my own part, I thought we should get a fortnight extra." "Buck made a good jump yesterday, Tim," says another. "Five feet and half an inch."
More than that, any independent expression of opinion was sure to evoke the ire of the orthodox in politics and religion, which in those days were somewhat closely connected.
On and on she played; one ranchman after another softly suggesting some desired melody, and her eager little fingers rendering it upon the instant. The men ceased sprawling and sat up. If they had found the Gray Lady's voice a marvel, here was a greater. That any child a despised "female" child could evoke such music seemed past belief; and when, at length, Mr.
Pao-ch'ai chimed in with a laugh. "What jibes!" exclaimed Tai-yue; "they're purely and simply the prattle of a mean mouth and vile tongue! They're enough to evoke people's displeasure!" Saying this, she went on to sputter in disgust. "Were you," insinuated lady Feng, "to become a wife in my family, what is there that you would lack?"
We are faced with the phenomenon that a set of revolutionists whose contempt for all the ideals of family and nation would evoke horror in a thieves' kitchen, who can rid themselves of those elementary instincts of the man and the gentleman which cling to the very bones of our civilisation, cannot rid themselves of the influence of two or three remote Oriental anecdotes written in corrupt Greek.
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