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Miss Trimble's right eye flashed about the room like a searchlight, but she kept the other hypnotically on her companion's face. "Whass trouble?" The right eye rested for a moment on a magnificent Corot over the mantelpiece, and she snifted again. "Not s'prised y'have trouble. All rich people 've trouble. Noth' t'do with their time 'cept get 'nto trouble."
Knowing no other course, he repeated it. 'You come, Kai-tai, Noth? She shook her head, and there was nothing more she could do or say. He looked hurt, but could not bridge the distance between them. At this the unnamed Eldest, a supple, wizened hunter of fifteen, grew impatient. This day they must begin the long migration, and it was time to be gone.
Down stage a step, Miss Ellsling. No; I said down. A step, not a mile! There! Now, if you consent to be ready, ladies and gentlemen. Very well. 'Nothing in this world but that one thing can defeat my certain election and noth " Again he interrupted himself unexpectedly.
He merely put his lips together and waved his hand slowly from side to side. Not perceiving, in my simplicity, that he was thus expressing a sublime pity for the ignorance which my demand implied, I innocently proceeded: "Nor balcony?" This time he condescended to speak. "Noth ing, sir." Then I understood that what he meant was: "Poor fool! why don't you ask for the moon?" I blushed.
"Oh, so so," replied the general. "But I get awful lonesome. I'm naturally a domestic man. I don't care for friends. They're expensive and dangerous. A man in my position is like a king. He can't have friends. So, if he hasn't got a family, he hasn't got noth anything." "Nothing like home life," said Presbury. "Yes, indeed," cried Mrs. Presbury.
The man nodded. "I hope you're not disappointed in them and I hope you are going to see and to own a great many finer ones. "We've never seen noth anything, nor been anywhere, yet." It was Mrs. Briskow speaking. "But we're goin'. We're goin' lots of places and we're goin' to see everything wuth seein', so Pa says. Anyhow, the children is. First off, Pa's goin' to take us to the mountains."
It was in this sense that the mystic Angelas Silesius declared that God could not live for a moment without him, and that if he were to be annihilated God must of necessity give up the ghost: Ich weiss dass ohne mich Gott nicht ein Nu kann leben; Werd' ich zunicht, er muss von Noth den Geist aufgeben.
"Man," responded the baby gravely. "Who gave you nice nuts for the dear bunnies?" "Man." "Who carried you all round the pretty square?" "Man." "Who gave you that lovely picture book full of animals?" "Man." "Then don't you love the kind man?" "Noth." "Yes, you do you've forgotten. Go and speak to him."
And they were very grateful to the good God who had given these things to them, grateful and happy as all little children should be. But that is not the end of the fairy story. No, that is but the Little-Clock-with-the-Wise-Face-on-the-Mantel won't let us tell any more. His silver voice says: "Ting ting ting ting ting ting ting," which means: "Tell that tale a noth er time." So good-night.
'You go, Kai-tai, Noth? And his arm followed hers in obvious longing, a sweeping arc that to his mind held images of bergs and floes and sweeping tundra, and vast islands of thirty thousand seals: the cold, exhilarating perfection of unspoiled Arctic Seas. She looked down, as pain clouded her face. How could she tell him, who in naive trust believed that she could follow wherever he led?
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