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So there we were in the wilderness, far, far from a cook. The hub of our universe had departed. Or, to make the figure modern, we had blown out a tire. And we had no spare one. I made my declaration of independence at once. I could cook; but I would not cook for that outfit. There were too many; they were too hungry.
She had turned him down, this half-wife, on the plea of weariness; and as soon as he had left the house to go and eat his heart out in the hub of that swarming lonely city, she had darted out with this doll-man whom he wouldn't have her touch with the end of a pole. There was a limit to all things, and he had come to it. "You're coming home," he said. "Marty, but I can't. Gilbert Palgrave "
He said nothing about robbers, while his father unsaddled his horse and tied the animal snugly to a limb. Then Pa Padgett put his foot on the hub and sprang into the carriage. "Is there room for me to stretch myself in here tonight too?" "Of course there is. But don't you want to see grandma and aunt Krin?" "Wait till morning. We'll all take an early start. Have they kept well?"
The administration of municipal affairs in the "Hub of the Universe," during the seventies and early eighties of this proud century, was one not at all creditable to any party nor to the city that prides itself on being distinctive and foremost in fame. The development of political life in New England had been after the model of the town.
And we want it to happen as soon as possible because, if Maulbow was telling the truth on that point, every minute that passes here is taking us farther away from the Hub, and farther from our own time towards his." Kerim nodded, eyes intent on his face. "Now I can't just go down there and start slapping switches around on the thing," Gefty went on.
In the latter city he made the acquaintance of Shilaber, Ben Perley Poore, Halpine, and others, and tried his hand as a "sketchist" for a volume edited by Mrs. Partington. His early effusions bore the signature of "Chub." From the Hub he emigrated to the West. At Toledo, Ohio, he worked as a "typo" and later as a "local" on a Toledo newspaper.
The troubles of the revolution and the barricaded streets drove them from the country to Weimar, where Liszt had been given the post of Kapellmeister. It was this third-rate town that became the birthplace of a new school of German opera, for years the hub of the musical universe. Here in Weimar the princess lived thirteen years.
Other lame ones were lashed to the side of a heavy wagon, partially sunk in the ground, their lame foot fastened on the hub of a wheel, when a piece of the raw hide was brought over the hoof and fastened about the fet-lock, protecting the hoof until it had time to heal. This mode of veterinary treatment, although crude, lessened the suffering among the cattle very materially.
Through this simple act, the entire social community will experience a diminution of misery and an augmentation of health. At the present hour, the radiation of diseases from Paris extends to fifty leagues around the Louvre, taken as the hub of this pestilential wheel. We might say that, for ten centuries, the cess-pool has been the disease of Paris.
It did not have the understanding to permit it to construct such a base. So it made the Devagas a proposition. It would work for them, somewhat as it had worked for the Old Galactics, if unlike the Old Galactics they would work for it. Balmordan, newly become a person of foremost importance, transmitted the offer to the hierarchy in the Hub.
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