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"Why, Dad!" exclaimed the girl laughing, as the red-faced man whirled upon her in surprise. "What a beastly temper you are in this morning! Who got away, and why are you so anxious to have him caught?" "Oskar got away," he growled, apparently somewhat mollified by his daughter's tone. "Hicks started for jail with him an' Oskar knocked him down in the alley an' got away." "Oskar! Jail!
"Your approval means more than anything," he said, holding her hand. Mrs. Dick sat up and opened her eyes wide. "Speaking of Oskar," she began, and then stopped, staring past her sister, toward the door. We all turned, and there, blinking in the light, was Miss Summers. "WELL!" she said, and stood staring. Then she smiled I guess our faces were funny.
With an energy we may say with a passionateness and confidence of victory such as we were accustomed to see only in the most advanced advocates of materialism, Ludwig Büchner, D. F. Strauss, Häckel, Oskar Schmidt, Helmholtz, the editor of the "Ausland" and some of his associates, and our often-mentioned "Anonymus," in a common attack, assail every idea of a conformity to an end in nature, every idea of a goal toward which the development at large and individually strives; in a word, the whole category of teleology.
"Certainly not," I said. "He does." Miss Patty's voice smothered. Then she got up and came over to me. "There is going to be an awful fuss, Minnie," she said. "Think of Aunt Honoria and Oskar!" "Let them fuss!" I said grandly. "If the worst comes, you can spend your honeymoon in the shelter-house. I'm so used to carrying meals there now that it's second nature."
A few moments later Jean entered, the office followed by a rather well set up young man, whose tiny mustache was chopped square, like a miniature section of box hedge. "This is Mr. Wentworth, Dad," introduced the girl. "And now I'll leave you two men, because Oskar has promised to help me pick out a coat, and it's after ten o'clock. And, by the way, Dad, what kind of a coat shall I get?
The scientific antagonists of teleology show such a scientific intolerance against their own associates, that one of the latest exhibitors of Darwinism, Oskar Schmidt, in his "Theory of Descent and Darwinism," bluntly classes one of the greatest and most deserving investigators in the realm of comparative anatomy and palæontology, Richard Owen, of London, with the "'Halves' who, fearing the conclusions, with one word come to terms with the scientific conscience."
F.S. Krauss, op. cit. p. 319, quoting Wisla, vol. iv. pp. 1, 244 sqq. F.S. Krauss, op. cit. p. 318, quoting Oskar Kolberg, in Mazowsze, vol. iv. p. 138. F.S. Krauss, "Slavische Feuerbohrer," Globus, lix. p. 140. The evidence quoted by Dr. Krauss is that of his father, who often told of his experience to his son. Prof. Vl.
"Who'll kill who?" grinned McNabb, holding her back with one hand, without taking his eyes from the struggling, fighting figures that writhed almost at his feet, overturning boxes and bales in their struggles. "He'll kill Oskar! He's bigger " "Not by a damn sight, he won't!" roared McNabb. "Look at um! Look at um! Oskar's on top! Give him hell, lad!"
"Any of Miss Patty's friends " I began, with a lump in my throat, and gave his hand a good squeeze. I thought he looked startled, and suddenly I had a sort of chill. "Good gracious!" I exclaimed, "should I have kissed it?" They roared at that, and Miss Patty had to sit down in a chair. "You see, she knows, Oskar," she said.
I think the set is all right. Who would ever notice it? Let it go." Hedin smiled. "You can wear it to-night, all right, but you must promise me to send it down the first thing Monday morning for the alteration. "I will bring it to the house this afternoon." A sudden caprice seized her. "Why, I think I'll wear it!" she answered. "Just help me on with it, Oskar.
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