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"If he doesn't the mountain will come to Mahomet and crush him," continued Filmer gayly, then, his mood changing, "but honestly, old man, why don't you drop your gloomy views? You've an excellent chance right now, and, besides, they're getting rather amusing." "I've a right to my own opinions." "Naturally, we all have, but you don't act up to them at least you didn't."
After all, if we get off the handle it will be a mighty bad example. How about it, Mr. Mayor?" "Well," said Filmer, caressing his glossy whiskers, "I always believed in Clark and I guess I do now. If he were trying to make money for himself out of this thing we'd know it, but he isn't. Gentlemen, the judge is right we've got to hold the town together."
He became a man of importance. Gaston and Filmer, glad with the intelligence of men who know the value of work, took the actual burden upon themselves. Lauzoon had the empty glory; they had the blessing of toil that brought their faculties into play, and gave them relief from somberer thoughts. But Gaston was too normal a man not to consider the gravity of conditions that were developing.
Adams delivered a lecture before the Franklin Lyceum, at Providence, Rhode Island, on the Social Compact, in which he enters into "an examination of the principles of democracy, aristocracy, and universal suffrage, as exemplified in a historical review of the present constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, with some notice of the origin of human government, and remarks on the theories of divine right, as maintained by Hobbes and Sir Robert Filmer, on one side, and by Sydney, Locke, Montesquieu, and Rousseau, on the other."
Filmer was pulling thoughtfully at his glossy black whiskers. Both paused on the wide front step. "Then at eight this evening, Mr. Clark?" said Filmer. "At eight," answered the stranger, staring keenly at the river. "Won't you come and stay with me while you are here, it's just as comfortable as the hotel?" Filmer laughed softly. Clark shook his head.
I thought first back there when I dropped everything, that there never could be anything else worth while, but I tell you old man, if you take even a remnant of life and love to Death's portal you're always mighty glad to get the chance to come back and see the game out. It's when you go empty-handed, that you long to slip in and have done with it. Filmer, there's something yet left for me to do."
And within two years of that paper before the Society of Arts he was hastily taking out a number of patents and proclaiming in various undignified ways the completion of the divergent inquiries which made his flying machine possible. The first definite statement to that effect appeared in a halfpenny evening paper through the agency of a man who lodged in the same house with Filmer.
Well, I drank deep of that life," Constance looked dreamily over the stretch of meadow and pine-edged woods, all dazzling with a shimmer of icy snow, "before I took to " "Crime?" Jock suggested. "It would seem that that was the natural sequence to such a career." "Jock Filmer I took to philanthropy." "As bad as that?" Jock roared with laughter.
"I'm glad of that, Filmer." "I'm not much of a hand for holding back what I want to give out," Jock rushed on, "and I ain't much of an orator. What I'm going to tell you, Drew, has been corked up for over ten years it's ripe for opening will you share it?" "Can you ask that, Filmer?" The two men looked steadily at each other. "Did you ever hear of Jasper Filmer on the Pacific Coast?"
"And the others here? Do they make her and him feel it?" Filmer laughed. "You forget," he replied; "Gaston's got about all the floating capital there is around here. Where he gets it, is his own affair, and him and Joyce don't ask no favours. The whole thing has settled into shape. You needn't get excited over it. Of course, the women folks have warned your aunt and sister off.
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