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'Of attention! said Mr. Grewgious. 'Ah! of course, not of impatience? 'Impatience, sir? Mr. Grewgious had meant to be arch not that he in the remotest degree expressed that meaning and had brought himself into scarcely supportable proximity with the fire, as if to burn the fullest effect of his archness into himself, as other subtle impressions are burnt into hard metals.
'Rattle the bones? what is that? 'Don't you know? and here this promising young peer manually explained his meaning. 'What do you play at? asked the Duke. 'Hazard, for my money; but what you like. 'Where? 'We meet at De Berghem's. There is a jolly set of us. All crack men. When my governor is here, I never go. He is so jealous.
No thought, no imagination seemed to have any meaning for him, in the presence of that raging dread. Had he, he wondered, come in sight of the ultimate truth of life? The pain he suffered seemed to him the strongest thing in the world, stronger than love, stronger than death.
It did not take Morgan long to prepare. His men were always ready to move. “To Louisville,” was the cry, “we want to call on George D.,” meaning George D. Prentice, the editor of the Louisville Journal. In all probability few men in the Confederate army knew that Morgan was on another raid, until he was well on his way.
The inland cities were in the grip of strikes ... there were plenty of jobs, but few with the temerity to attempt to fill them. And, besides, what had Fred Starratt to offer in the way either of skill or brawn?... He grew to know the meaning of impotence.
"I think you are quite competent to read my meaning, and I now confidently expect to hear that you will take pleasure in obliging me in the way which I indicated to you in my previous letters. "Yours faithfully, Barthorpe read this communication three times, pausing over every sentence, seeking to read the meanings, the implications, the subtly veiled threat.
Had he realised that it was nearly three o'clock in the morning the presence of such a concourse would have astonished him. But if he was not actually ill and out of his mind, he was at all events in such a confused state that he did not even ask himself what was the meaning of the demonstration.
"The promise is clear," he said aloud presently, as he shut the book; "clear and often repeated. There is no escape from it, and no possibility of a double meaning. If it is not true, then it would seem that nothing is true, and that every Christian in the world is tricked and deluded. But if it is true, why do we never hear of miracles?
And though the best authorities confess that they cannot be sure of his meaning, this may very well be because he anticipated Herbert Spencer by two and a half millenniums, in acknowledging that all things merge in one and the same Unknowable.
Cleves, with good-natured humour twinkling in his eyes, 'depend upon it, that is a corrupt version. The original text is, that they all dined together with six meaning six children and that Mrs. Barton is an excellent cook. 'I wish dining alone together may be the worst of that sad business, said the Rev. Archibald Duke, in a tone implying that his wish was a strong figure of speech.
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