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It really hurt Olivier to find himself so cut off from these men. He tried to be like them, to think like them, to speak like them. He could not do it. His voice was dull, husky, had not the ring that was in theirs. When he tried to catch some of their expressions the words would stick in his throat or sound queer and strange. He watched himself; he was embarrassed, and embarrassed them.
Cries that the old mysteries never caught, lamentations for Adonis not heard before, griefs that Dionysus never knew, shall yet ring out from those walls. Under that classic dome which still calls itself Platonic, the questions and experiments of the new learning are beginning. These youths are here to represent the new philosophy, which is science, in the act of taking its first step.
"Cricket" McGuire, ex-feather-weight prizefighter, tout, jockey, follower of the "ponies," all-round sport, and manipulator of the gum balls and walnut shells, looked up pugnaciously at the imputation cast by "bud." "G'wan," he rasped, "telegraph pole. I didn't ring for yer." Another paroxysm wrung him, and he leaned limply against a convenient baggage truck.
Everything being now out of her, about ten o'clock in the morning they set fire to her; after which they all mustered together on an unoccupied piece of ground near the village, where they remained standing for some time; but at last they all sat down except five, who were chiefs, for whom a large ring was left vacant in the middle.
"Can we be happy all at once," the old man goes on; "change misery into joy, and poverty into riches? Come now, it's not possible, and I'll tell you why; if it had been as easy as all that, it would have been done already, wouldn't it?" The bells begin to ring.
He springs lightly to the ground; his gun is on his shoulder, but he lays that against a tree, and goes lightly towards her. How still she is! How tightly her small hands are clasped! How very small they are! Is that the first ring he had given her, shining on her third finger? She had not flung that back in his face, at all events!
"Where was he?" asked Sir Hokus in great agitation. "In a picture," said the King. "Wait, I'll ring for it." "No use," said the Knight in a disappointed voice. "We're looking for a man." "Would you mind telling me why you are all so still, and why all your furniture runs around?" asked Dorothy, who was growing a little restless. "You forget where you are, and you're out of turn.
When the last hide was stowed away, and the hatches calked down, the tarpaulins battened on to them, the long-boat hoisted in and secured, and the decks swept down for the night, the chief mate sprang upon the top of the long-boat, called all hands into the waist, and giving us a signal by swinging his cap over his head, we gave three long, loud cheers, which came from the bottom of our hearts, and made the hills and valleys ring again.
"Well, Paul, what news of the ring?" asked Mrs. Hoffman, as he re-entered the room. "I was offered twenty-five dollars for it," said Paul. "Did you sell it?" "No, mother." "Why not?" asked Jimmy. "Twenty-five dollars is a lot of money." "I know it," said Paul; "but the ring is worth a great deal more." "What makes you think so, Paul?"
Norah could hear her chirping on, happily, while she laid away her hat in the bandbox and girt herself with a protecting apron. The talk turned her cold. "It ain't only for myself I want it," she declared to an invisible suggester, "though I do want something real. I never had a real gold chain, or even a real gold breastpin, in my life or a ring. Oh, I did want one!"
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