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I don't assume for a moment that this ruse was purposeless." Doctor McMurdoch was now staring hard at the speaker. "You may also know," Harley continued, "that there was an attempted burglary here less than a week ago." "I know that," admitted the other, "but it counts for little. There have been several burglaries in the neighbourhood of late."
"Oh, no," he objected to her objection; "it's not quite as bad as that." "They make me perfectly miserable." He whipped the canvas off the easel, saying dryly: "Don't think of them again!" It looked like impatience. With hands thrust in his pockets he took a purposeless half-turn in the room, then came back to her side. "If you totally detest them, I am sorry," he said mildly.
They suffer, and it seems to them purposeless and stupid. But if you were to explain to them that they are being sacrificed for the benefit of the race don't you see what a difference it would make?" "I don't believe they would take the suggestion kindly," said the professor with a faint attempt to smile. "But why not?" asked Samuel.
Consider, likewise, the vast proportion of seeds and pollen, of ova and young a thousand or more to one which come to nothing, and are therefore purposeless in the same sense, and only in the same sense, as are Darwin's unimproved and unused slight variations. The world is full of such cases; and these must answer the argument for we cannot, except by thus showing that it proves too much.
"If it weren't for the girl," said one of them in a scared whisper to his neighbour, "I would leave the wizard to the devil and his dam." Scarcely had the words left his mouth, when the door opened, and out came a form whether phantom or living woman none could tell. Pale, forlorn, lost, and purposeless, it came straight towards them, with wide unseeing eyes. They parted in terror from its path.
I " The unfinished sentence sank into the silence of things inexpressible or which it was purposeless to express. Her voice suggested the tinkle of Jag Ear's bells floating away into space. If a precipitate were taken from her forehead, in keeping with Jack's suggestion to Dr. Bennington, it would have been mercury, which is so tangible to the eye and intangible to the touch.
Fortune, reputation these had no value to him except in Ruth's eyes, and there were times when it seemed to him that if Ruth was not on this earth, he should plunge off into some remote wilderness and live in a purposeless seclusion.
Ever since they were spoken the old bloody work has been going on, and the old lusts of the human heart have been busy sowing the dragon's teeth that shall spring up in wars and fightings. In savage lands warfare rages on, ceaseless, ignoble, unrecorded, and seemingly purposeless as that of animalcules in a drop of water.
And into the pretty print of the scene on his mind, like a humped marine beast rising through a summer sea, there obtruded the recollection of the little solicitor, the graceless embarrassment that he had shown at the beginning of the interview by purposeless rubbings of his hands and twisting of the ankles, the revelation of ugly sexual quality which he had given by his shame at the story of the bed that was made an altar.
He wore a very conscious and elaborately purposeless air; and it jumped with my mood that he had nothing less than the crisis of his life in his pocket, and was looking for me. As he advanced towards me between the long tables doubt left me and alarm assailed me. 'I'm glad to find you in a quiet corner, said he, seating himself, and confirmed my worst anticipations.
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