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Sergius, what have you been doing that this little flea of an editor should jump out of his ink-pot and bite you? Does he hurt much?" "Hurt!" Thord laughed aloud. "If I had money enough to pay the man ten golden coins a week where his present employer gives him five, he would dance to any tune I whistled!" "Is that so?" asked Leroy, with interest. "Do you not know that it is so?" rejoined Thord.
"Get away, bad dog!" screamed the lady, for he had given himself a shake and spattered her dress with water. He was a powerful boy of twenty, admirably muscular, but rather too broad for his height. People called him "Podge" until they were dissuaded. Then they called him "Stephen" or "Mr. Wonham." Then he said, "You can call me Podge if you like." "As for Flea !" he began tempestuously.
"The above-mentioned flea will jump from your legs to your eyes, will try and hide himself in apertures and crevices, will leap from valley to mountain, endeavouring to escape you; but the rules of the house order you courageously to pursue, repeating aves. Ordinarily at the third ave the beast is taken." "The flea?" asked the novice.
"Ye love her?" "Very much, very much indeed. But she is young yet only a little girl." "Did ye tell her that ye loved her?" "Yes." "Did she say she loved you?" "Yes." Flukey groaned. "Then it's something else than that, because I've known for a long time that Flea loved ye. What's the matter? What's the matter with ye both?"
Now, whenever one of the twain, Baba Mustapha and the Vizier Feshnavat, commenced speaking of the dish of pomegranate grain, the torment of the flea took all tongue from him, and was destruction to the gravity of council and deliberation.
A man could hardly be expected to take a raw country flea, as you might say, and educate it, and give it graces and teach it dancing and all the accomplishments for less than a dollar. But one hundred dollars was a lot of money, too. If it had been a matter of one flea Flannery would not have worried, but to pay out one hundred dollars in a lump for flea-slaughter, hurt his feelings.
Such, and so magnifying, is the virtue of a large and liberal theme! We expand to its bulk. To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be who have tried it.
Behind them a little mob of grim, stalwart, sun-tanned buccaneers were restrained from cracking Bishop like a flea only by their submission to the dominant will of their leader.
"Thus this, then, is inertia the attempt of the fabric of space to smooth itself; to get rid of the strain of the particle that has been created from itself." Ishie shook his head. "Not quite," he said, "but you're getting close." Mike shook himself like a dog coming out of water. "Oh, well," he said. "Anyway, we've got a space drive flea sized.
"No, no, of course not not yet!" He dropped into his chair, his head falling forward in his hands. "I wouldn't have believed," he said from between his fingers, "that my love for you " Flea stopped him with an interruption: "Are ye trying to stop lovin' me?" Horace shook his shoulders, lifting swift eyes to hers. He noted her expression irrevocable in its decision of silence.
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