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There was nothing going on at this late hour, and Max was able to take stock of the place and of the outlook generally. Piles of timber to the right of him, the dead wall at the side of a warehouse on the left, gave him but a narrow space in which to pursue his investigations.
One of those small-town girls with a big-town outlook, a well-trained mind, a slim boyish body, a good clear skin, and a steady eye that saw. Mary Hubbell wasn't a beauty by a good many measurements, but she had her points, as witness the number of bouquets, bundles, books, and bon-bons piled in her cabin when she sailed.
The Major was a Protestant, with strong anti-Papal convictions, and therefore was not, it might have been supposed, a good man to advise a priest on a delicate question of ecclesiastical etiquette. But the Major was eminently respectable, and his outlook upon life was staidly conservative.
It was an express from Lord Elphinstone at Bombay, red-bordered, in that it told of the tremendous affair now calmly fixed in history as the Indian Mutiny. Here was an earnest cry, 'Come over and help us, addressed to the potent British satrap nearest in the Seven Seas. 'Yes, Sir George mentioned, 'the despatch was in no wise positive as to the outlook in India.
She too had her foreign correspondents and knew just what was going on at Florence and what people were up to in Leipsic and Dresden. She possessed, so she considered, a wide outlook and the greatest possible breadth of interests, and she knew she was a dozen times too good for any man she had ever met.
The mind is on the alert when we meet the stranger quick and eager to master his outlook and his ways of thought, to see who and what he is it is critical, self-protective, rather than receptive. But, as time goes on, we notice less, we study the man less as we see more of him.
It may be added to his credit that he had not returned because of the money that was his when he chose to claim it. Rather, he had realized and Margery had a great deal to do with his newer outlook that so long as he stayed away from home he was confessing to cowardice.
This may be given to us by authority, in the form of creed: but if we do not thus receive it, we are committed to the building of our own City of God. And to-day, that world-view, that spiritual landscape, must harmonize if it is needed to help our living with the outlook, the cosmic map, of the ordinary man.
Abel laughed again. 'Lord love us! he said. 'You unna take and ax her? Tell her, that's what! Just tell her what to do, and she'll do it if you give her one for herself now and agen. So you mean marrying, do yer? Edward was angry. Abel's outlook and manner of expression rawed his nerves. 'I leave all the arrangements to her, he said stiffly. 'Then the devil aid you, said Abel, 'for I canna!
For a moment the Arab sat silent, as he forced his mind to an understanding of the Western outlook upon what to him was so simple a matter. "But she was unchaste, woman, therefore there was nothing else to do!" And at the tone of finality in the gentle voice, Jill sat back on her heels and said, "And then?" and listened without interrupting until the tale was done.
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