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He wrote because he wanted to, from the urgence of an idea pressing for utterance, not from the more imperious necessity of keeping the pot boiling and of there being a roof against the rain. Literary creation was to him a rest, a matter of holiday in the daily round of a man's labor to provide for his own. His output was small.
I remember," she broke off, "an Aunt of mine who lived at Dulwich and kept cactuses. You reached the conservatory through the double drawing-room, and there, on the hot pipes, were dozens of them, ugly, squat, bristly little plants each in a separate pot. Once in a hundred years the Aloe flowered, so my Aunt said. But she died before that happened " We told her to keep to the point.
The brown pot could never be of use to him any more, but he stuck the bits together and propped the ruin in its old place for a memorial. This is the history of Silas Marner, until the fifteenth year after he came to Raveloe.
Softswan did not move, but continued silently to stir the soup in the pot on the fire. Presently many footsteps were heard outside, and the sound of men conversing in low tones. Another moment, and a handsome middle-aged Indian stood in the doorway. With an expression of profound sorrow, he gazed for one moment at the wounded man; then, striding forward, knelt beside him and grasped his hand.
"What do you mean?" "Aint he just green? Down with the stumpy a tizzy for a pot of half-and-half." "I never drink beer." "Then never do," whispered the man at my side; "as sure as hell's hell, it's your only chance." There was a fierce, deep earnestness in the tone which made me look up at the speaker, but the other instantly chimed in
"I never heard the name, did you?" "You know him, Ned," said the doorkeeper's wife; "him as Mr. Gaspard used to go about with." By a sudden common impulse, the eyes of the two men met; the woman went off to brew them a pot of tea, and left them fearfully gazing at one another. "What stuff!" said the watchmaker uneasily. "It was only his blow.
When first he spied the pot, his heart was in his mouth it must be gold, and with tottering knees he raised the precious burden.
At length, on Dewing's deal, Johnson picked up three kings before the draw. He sat at Dewing's left; it was his first chance to open the pot; he passed. Dewing coughed; Johnson felt again that current of cold air on his neck. "This must be the big mitt," thought Pete. "In a square game there'd be nothing unusual in passing up three kings for a raise that is good poker.
You easily become accustomed to the ordinary heat, but when water is dropped upon the stones there is a rush of blistering steam. It catches you on the platform and you think how unfortunate is a lobster when he goes to pot and exchanges his green for scarlet. I declined this coup de grace after a single experience. To my view it is the objectionable feature of the Russian bath.
When the men had passed, the silence became oppressive once more, and Frank and his companion went in to find Harry nursing his arm, which had taken to throbbing violently. Just then Sam was ready with the coffee, borne in a steaming brass pot in company with a brass tray and so many brass cups.
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