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If in Shelton, who after his manner was a strong man, there had been combined with his resolution some tact and temper, he might have exercised a beneficial influence.
At this moment there was heard a piteous mewing; the parson went towards the door. "Excuse me a moment; I 'm afraid that's one of my cats out in the wet." He returned a minute later with a wet cat in his arms. "They will get out," he said to Shelton, with a smile on his thin face, suffused by stooping. And absently he stroked the dripping cat, while a drop of wet ran off his nose.
The soldier, without taking his hands out of his pockets, but by a forward movement of his face showing that he was both sincere and just, re-replied: "Well, it must be a good sort of stupidity; it makes us the nation that we are." Shelton felt dazed.
Against the wall reposed a bicycle with tennis-racquet buckled to its handle. A bull-dog bitch, working her snout from side to side, was snuffling horribly; the great iron-studded door to which her chain was fastened stayed immovable. Through this narrow mouth, human metal had been poured for centuries poured, moulded, given back. "Come along," said Shelton.
Late one evening, billiards and music being over and the ladies gone, Shelton returned from changing to his smoking-suit, and dropped into one of the great arm-chairs that even in summer made a semicircle round the fendered hearth.
Indians Await Their Prophets President Young kept the Hopi in mind, for the following year he sent Hamblin on a second trip to the Indians, with a company that consisted of Marion J. Shelton, Thales Haskell, Taylor Crosby, Benjamin Knell, Ira Hatch and John Wm. Young.
"You admit, then," said Shelton, "that our morality is the sum total of everybody's private instinct of self-preservation?" Halidome stretched his splendid frame and yawned. "I don't know," he began, "that I should quite call it that "
The umpire, a small boy of twelve, was lying on his stomach, squealing and tickling a collie. Shelton bent and pulled his hair. "Hallo, Toddles! you young ruffian!"
The story was a valuable commentary. His thoughts were brusquely interrupted; looking in Ferrand's face, he saw to his dismay tears rolling down his cheeks. "I 've suffered too much," he stammered; "what do I care now what becomes of me?" Shelton was disconcerted; he wished 'to say something sympathetic, but, being an Englishman, could only turn away his eyes.
"The questions of morality," said the parson promptly, "have always lain through God in the hands of men, not women. We are the reasonable sex." Shelton stubbornly replied "We 're certainly the greater humbugs, if that 's the same." "This is too bad," exclaimed the parson with some heat. "I 'm sorry, sir; but how can you expect women nowadays to have the same views as our grandmothers?
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