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Pan gravitated at once to them, and to his great satisfaction they accepted him.
And you, by nature and by mind, also by the foolish position into which you have got yourself, in short, by your whole being, have gravitated steadily to the conclusion I propose to you, namely, that of succeeding me, of succeeding Corentin. That is the question between us, Monsieur.
Sometimes the experiment was tried of putting him at the top of his class, and it was curious to note the rapidity with which he gravitated to the inevitable bottom. The youth was given up by his teachers as an incorrigible dunce one of them pronouncing him to be a "stupendous booby."
As it happened, however, the other party concerned never stirred further in the business, probably because he was too drunk to remember who had knocked him into the sluit or whether he had gravitated thither by accident. On the following morning we renewed our discussion, debating in detail every possible method of reaching the Kendah people by help of such means as we could command.
The newly-married man followed his example, and for a while they went on together, till presently the latter gravitated towards his wife's palanquin, and, overcome at so long a separation, squeezed her hand between the curtains. Not wishing to intrude himself on their conjugal felicity, Arthur in his turn gravitated to the side of Mrs.
"He is now no longer at Rochefort, and Dr. Burot informs me that his health has much improved, and that his peculiarities have in great part disappeared. I must, however, for clearness sake, use the present tense in briefly describing his condition at the time when the long series of experiments were made. "The state into which he has gravitated is a very unpleasing one.
"But he didn't know anything about the map. He was not in our confidence." "You and your friend talked it over evenings when he was at the ranch, and other places, too, I expect." "Yes, our talk kind of gravitated that way whenever we got together." "Well, this fellow overheard you. That's probable, at least." "But you're ignoring the important fact.
In his sterner moods he gravitated to Latin, and wrought the noble iron of that language to effects that were, if anything, a trifle over-impressive. He found for his highest flights of contemplation a handy vehicle in Sanscrit. In hours of mere joy it was Greek poetry that flowed likeliest from his pen; and he had a special fondness for the metre of Alcaeus.
By a strange coincidence, Zotique and Vital, instead of going to the table with the others, gravitated toward the door. "Just thought I would have a look out; it is such a fine night," said Zotique, as he took a long breath of fresh air. Vital looked at his robust brother in a queer, constrained manner, and said that it was indeed a beautiful evening.
Their lot was cast in the ten years of inevitable reaction, when, the Reform excitement being over, and the few legislative improvements which the public really called for having been rapidly effected, power gravitated back in its natural direction, to those who were for keeping things as they were; when the public mind desired rest, and was less disposed than at any other period since the Peace, to let itself be moved by attempts to work up the Reform feeling into fresh activity in favour of new things.
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