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Updated: May 18, 2025
And still we drifted on, nearer and nearer to Boca Chica, the northern passage into Manila Bay. Dawn and light came slowly. In poetry the dawn of the tropics may come up like thunder and the transition of darkness to light may be startling and sudden, but in my own experience the tropic dawn comes slowly and pervadingly.
Too much of him every way; pervadingly too much nose of a coarse wrong shape, and his nose in his mind and his manners; too much smile to be real; too much frown to be false; too many large teeth to be visible at once without suggesting a bite.
There used to be a notion not so much widely asserted as deeply implanted, rather pervadingly latent than commonly apparent in political philosophy that in a little while, perhaps ten years or so, all human beings might, without extraordinary appliances, be brought to the same level.
And after that, comes Mrs Veneering, in a pervadingly aquiline state of figure, and with transparent little knobs on her temper, like the little transparent knob on the bridge of her nose, 'Worn out by worry and excitement, as she tells her dear Mr Twemlow, and reluctantly revived with curacoa by the Analytical.
I went out of the city gate, and leaned on the parapet that encloses the pyramid, advancing its high, unbroken slope and peak, where the great blocks of marble still fit almost as closely to one another as when they were first laid; though, indeed, there are crevices just large enough for plants to root themselves, and flaunt and trail over the face of this great tomb; only a little verdure, however, over a vast space of marble, still white in spots, but pervadingly turned gray by two thousand years' action of the atmosphere.
But how amid the whole sordidness the entire devotion of America, at any price, to pecuniary success, merchandise disregarding all but business and profit this war for a bare idea and abstraction a mere, at bottom, heroic dream and reminiscence burst forth in its great devouring flame and conflagration quickly and fiercely spreading and raging, and enveloping all, defining in two conflicting ideas first the Union cause second the other, a strange deadly interrogation point, hard to define Can we not now safely confess it? with magnificent rays, streaks of noblest heroism, fortitude, perseverance, and even conscientiousness, through its pervadingly malignant darkness.
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