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"I swear " replied Raoul, resorting to his favorite pledge "on a stack of Bibles that high!" "Ah-h-h-h, pf-f-f-f-f!" This polite expression of unbelief was further emphasized by a spasmodic flirt of one hand, with the thumb pointed outward. "Ask him! ask him!" cried Raoul. "Honoré!" called Sylvestre, rising up. Two or three persons passed the call around the corner of the veranda.
Such work should, of course, cover all incorporated mining companies, not merely a few hundred of the more prominent gold mines; and it should be continuous and not spasmodic. Such a plan is of course Utopian, but I feel that anything less would be likely to do little good.
He may have taken the view that a moderate, steady and calculable loss on corn purchased in large quantities, and therefore presumably at a reduced price, would be cheaper in the end than the cost entailed by the spasmodic attempts which the State had to make in times of crisis to put grain upon the market; and there may have been some truth in the idea that, when the State became for the first time a steady purchaser, competition between the publicans of Sicily or the proprietors of Africa might greatly reduce the normal market price.
Bridge could feel the trembling of the slight figure, the spasmodic gripping of the slender fingers and hear the quick, short, irregular breathing. A sudden impulse to throw a protecting arm about the boy seized him an impulse which he could not quite fathom, and one to which he could not respond because of the body of the girl he carried. He bent toward the youth.
He fell too easily into the spasmodic vice of the day, and said striking things rather than true ones. He assumed a basis of faith every whit as dogmatic as special revelation, and sometimes grievously misrepresented the creeds which he assailed.
And now," adds the young man, "although father has a new car, I am never allowed to drive it!" Here was a case where the spasmodic action of the muscles had gotten so far beyond control as to make the ordinary pursuits of life dangerous to the young man who stammered. These spasmodic movements were always present he told of one occasion when he was in a barber's chair being shaved.
This was worse, even, than the marriage threatened. Lunch was a spasmodic affair of cutlets hardening in grease, blue boiled potatoes, sandy spinach and blanched ragged bread. There was more beer; but Jim, his wife proceeded, liked whiskey and water with his meals. The former glanced uneasily at Mariana, tranquilly cutting up her cutlet.
Almost in the same instant, he was seen to turn over in the water; his limbs moved only with a spasmodic action; he gave a feeble kick or two with his long hind legs; and then his carcass floated along the surface, like a mass of white foam. It was soon secured, and drawn out upon the bank for the purpose of being stripped of its snow-white robe.
"Because you weren't in it, you witch, I suppose." This was such a decided triumph over the old lady of the portrait that I could afford to be amiable; so, giving him a spasmodic little hug and an energetic little kiss, I went out and stopped the spinning nuisance immediately. After that the hobby went slower and slower, feebler and feebler.
But all this was spasmodic, and not likely to take the world by storm, while Spiritualists had adopted the time-honoured maxim "Magna est veritas et prevalebit." Therefore they must organize.
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