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The inference follows of necessity, that the mysterious cause must be in some general law, which is absolute and imperative in relation to every such object under certain conditions. And we receive the solution as true, because we cannot help it. The reality, then, of such a law becomes a fixture in the mind. But we do not stop here: we would know something concerning the conditions supposed.
But the shadow of the troubles in his household interfered with his comfort here also; he could not, as formerly, settle down into his favourite chair with the evening paper, reposeful in the celibate's sense that where he was his world's centre had its fixture. His world was now an ellipse, with a dual centrality, of which his own was not the major.
And why are you at home again?" "I'm down here for the week-end -to get some more of my duds, to tell the truth. I'm going to be a fixture at the Egypt factory much to dad's surprise, I fancy." "Do you like it?" she asked him, watching his face covertly. "I hate it! But I can stick, just the same. I have a scheme for improving the taffy cutting machines, too.
This is the creature that has made the aristocratic parasite a fixture in Europe, and he is all that is needed to make the same curse a fixture in our own country, and every attempt to increase his number should be resisted with all the means in our power, until the plunder he is wanted to guard shall have found its way back to its rightful owners.
And yet you sought in vain for one congenial or redeeming trait in the character of this man. "I always find you here; you're a fixture, I take it " The vote-cribber interrupts the inebriate "Better have said a patriot!" "Well," returns the inebriate, "a patriot then; have it as you like it. I'm not over-sensitive of the distinction."
The candelabra, the fire-dogs, the fender, the chandelier, the clock, were all in the most unmeaning style of scroll-work; the round table, a fixture in the middle of the room, was a mosaic of fragments of Italian and antique marbles, brought from Rome, where these dissected maps are made of mineralogical specimens for all the world like tailors' patterns an object of perennial admiration to Crevel's citizen friends.
Chase was as permanent a fixture in that house as the ship's chronometer in the dining-room; and that was screwed to the wall. And, in spite of his grumbling, he and Mary-'Gusta were rapidly becoming fast friends. Shadrach and Zoeth also were beginning to enjoy her company, her unexpected questions, her interest in the house and the store, and shrewd, old-fashioned comments on persons and things.
As Philip did not desire a room at that hour, he was invited to wash himself at the nasty sink, a feat somewhat easier than drying his face, for the towel that hung in a roller over the sink was evidently as much a fixture as the sink itself, and belonged, like the suspended brush and comb, to the traveling public.
Beneath the bed was visible the rim of a shallow English tub that made possible his subsequent sponge bath.... A machine; a fixture; creature of an implacable routine; a spirit immolated upon the altar of habit: into this he had degenerated in ten years. Such was the effect of life in this melancholy shelter for the homeless wage-slave. He was no lonely victim.
"The dinner is a fixture," I replied firmly. "Can I borrow Miss Eve, please? I want to take her for a motor ride." "You cannot, sir," Mr. Parker told me. "Eve has a little business of her own or, rather, mine to attend to this morning." "You are not going to let her run any more risks, are you?" Mr. Parker frowned at me. "Look here, young man," he said; "she is my daughter, remember!
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