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Updated: June 11, 2025
It was a tasteful milking-stool, this one she had selected, ornamented with the rough drawing of a cow in poker work: a little too solid for my taste, but one that I should say would wear well. The pail she had not as yet had time to see about. This galvanised bucket we were using was, I took it, a temporary makeshift.
'Goods' was the correct word, I thought, for such wholesale profusion; and 'cart-load' had the right spaciousness to indicate a measure of our abundance. There were several large sheets of galvanised iron, appearing exactly as one in the cart, but covering a notable expanse of ground when spread out singly. These were for a roof in the place of the saloon skylight.
Brethren and fathers in the ministry! how many of us know what it is to talk and toil away our early devotion; and all at once to discover that for years perhaps we have been preaching and labouring from mere habit and routine, like corpses galvanised into some ghastly and transient caricature of life.
At twenty minutes to seven John Stanway entered his large and handsome dining-room, having been driven home by David Dain, whose residence was close by. Three languorous women and the erect and motionless parlourmaid behind the door were waiting for him. He went straight to his carver's chair, and instantly the women were alert, galvanised into vigilant life.
It was 3:30 a.m. on the 8th of October when Jim was awakened by a stentorian cry from the deck of "Two ships ahead!" Galvanised into alertness he listened intently, and heard the officer of the watch calmly reply, "Where away?" There was a short pause, and then the seaman answered, "Three points on our port bow.
I was dazzled, and I vaguely understood that my "Roses of Midnight" were sterile eccentricities, dead flowers that could not be galvanised into any semblance of life, passionless in all their passion.
Suddenly I opened my eyes with a start. The sun had already risen, and was glancing through the woods on my head. I heard a noise a rustling in the grass. I turned my head, and there, to my horror, I beheld a huge rattlesnake about to spring on me. I sprang up as if I had been galvanised, and leaped a dozen feet or more away from the fangs of the rattlesnake.
Széphalmi stood beside him with a dubious expression. The young man at once observed it. "You, sir, are also a sufferer," said he; "my method can cure you also." Széphalmi smiled bitterly galvanised corpses may smile in the same way. "The balm that is to cure me does not exist," said he. "My method does not depend on material substances. You shall see.
"Venus!" I bawled, "Venus!" "Yes," said Pendriver, "Venus. What about it?" "Why," I said, "there are people from Venus in Kensington Gardens." "Venus in Kensington Gardens!" he replied. "No, it's not Venus; it's the Queen." I began to get angry. "Not the statue," I shouted. "Wisitors from Wenus. Make copy. Come and see! Copy! Copy!" The word "copy" galvanised him, and he came, spade and all.
The apathy and decay of native life, lacking all the scope and interest common to a strenuous age, appears galvanised into some fleeting semblance of vitality by the extravaganza presented to it, for the language of hyperbole is the natural expression of Eastern thought, and penetrates into mental recesses unknown and unexplored by the relater of unvarnished facts.
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