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A weapon not less powerful than political intimidation was the moral intimidation which the Prohibition propaganda had constantly at command. That such intimidation should be resorted to by a body pushing what it regards as a magnificent reform is not surprising; the pity is that so few people have the moral courage to beat back an attack of this kind.
The fat young man ran from the baggage-room to the platform and shouted again to Jerry Donlin, who was now slowly pushing the empty truck along the platform. From the train came a clear voice calling, "Latest Omaha papers! Have your change ready! Fatty, the train newsboy, has fallen down a well! Have your change ready, gentlemen!" Jerry Donlin, followed by Fatty, again disappeared from sight.
I had a suspicion you might prefer it that way." "Yes," puzzled by his manner, yet softly pushing the door back so as to exclude the light. "I can see better now. Are are you sure no one can overhear? I have something to tell you something important." "There is no one else here, yet some one might stumble into this room. It is not private, you know. We shall be safer on the porch outside.
I want you to come out with me." The whispered oath, and his defiant smile, enchanted her. "We can go out by the area steps," he continued. "There's two of 'em sitting in the hall, but the front door's shut. Do go and get your hat." She left the room with an obedient smile. Pushing open Sarah's door very gently, she groped on the hooks behind it for her hat.
But hardly had I caught sight of them, when suddenly she got up, leaning on her crutches, and, gazing around at the people, fixed her eye on me, who had never exchanged a word with her nor ever in all my life consulted her art. Pushing her way over to me through the dense crowd, she said, 'There!
But he waited till the tray was gone, the candles were lit, and the evening quiet might be counted on: the interval had left time for repelled tenderness to return into the old course. He spoke kindly. "Dear Rosy, lay down your work and come to sit by me," he said, gently, pushing away the table, and stretching out his arm to draw a chair near his own. Rosamond obeyed.
Presently the idea of trying the door occurs to me. I find that it has been unbolted, and pushing it open, climb the iron ladder and emerge on deck. The crew are washing down the deck, and standing aft and conversing are two men, one of whom is the captain. The latter manifests no surprise at seeing me, and indicates my presence to his companion by a nod.
There was, indeed, all the reality and unreality of the cinematograph about our arrival; presently the reel would end abruptly, and we should find ourselves pushing our way out of the emptying theatre into a rainy street.
The good reviews, however, were many, and their recommendation of the book hearty; they all prophesied that it would be a great success. Yet, spite of this, 'Lynwood's Heritage' didn't sell. Was it, as I had feared, that Derrick was too devoid of the pushing faculty ever to make a successful writer?
"No more of the 'precious duck, monsieur!" said she, turning round like a virtuous wife, her eyes full of tears, but dignified, cold, and indifferent. "Leave me," she went on, pushing him from her. "What is my duty? To belong wholly to my husband. He is a dying man, and what am I doing? Deceiving him on the edge of the grave. He believes your child to be his.
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