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Two artists of note have in the past twelve years come to the Hill, bought places and made it at least a summer home. It must not be inferred from the foregoing that there is not a wide range of mental difference among Quaker Hill men and women. In the matter of quickness and slowness of action this variation appears even among the members of any one group.
I should like to ask you a few questions. You allow me?" "Give me a specimen," said Newman. "You live here all alone?" "Absolutely. With whom should I live?" "For the moment," said M. de Bellegarde with a smile "I am asking questions, not answering them. You have come to Paris for your pleasure?" Newman was silent a while. Then, at last, "Every one asks me that!" he said with his mild slowness.
The very slowness of sailing-ships lightened anxiety. In such a gale you might as well be anxious in a wheel-chair. And then, when you went below, you went, not bored, but healthfully tired with active exertion of mind and body.
The dusk would not permit him to distinguish what it was, but he bade Michael go on. 'This seems a wild place, said Michael; 'there is no house hereabout, don't your honour think we had better turn back? 'Go a little farther, and if we see no house then, we will return to the road, replied St. Aubert. Michael proceeded with reluctance, and the extreme slowness of his pace made St.
She saw again the lion of the Atlas on the carpet, and returned to Jacques his kisses with delicious slowness. He led her, by a wooden stairway, into the vast hall which had served formerly as a workshop, where he designed and modelled his figures, and, above all, read; he liked reading as if it were opium.
Spurling, for all his slowness, was the first to reach the wreck. He helped the stout stranger to his feet, and the man turned angrily toward Whittington. An exclamation of surprise burst from both. "Dad!" "Percy!" Understanding struggled with indignation on the older man's face. "Well," he growled, "so you've done it again!"
Dogmas are often spoken of as if they were signs of the slowness or endurance of the human mind. As a matter of fact, they are marks of mental promptitude and lucid impatience. A man will put his meaning mystically because he cannot waste time in putting it rationally.
He laughed and, selecting the largest peach of all, began to pare it with his own pocket-knife, making a plate and napkin of his newspaper. With careful slowness he pared and stoned and quartered it, then handed her the segments on a bit of the paper torn from a clean spot. "Such immense pains!" she laughed, as she received the offering.
His own soldiers were terrified at his danger, and a cry arose in the town that "Holofernese" as the Flemings and Germans were accustomed to nickname Farnese was dead. Strange to relate, he was quite unharmed, and walked back to his tent with dignified slowness and a very frowning face.
"It's this way," went on Will, with tantalizing slowness, but Grace knew better than to try to hurry him. "Allen and Frank and I have bought a big ice boat." "You have?" cried Grace. "You never told me a thing about it." She looked her keen reproaches. "Well, I'm telling you now," said Will. "It is a second-hand one, and used to belong to the Chacalott Club, down the river.
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