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Life was a rare good thing, and to be squashed out of it with your powers at full, a wretched mistake in Nature's arrangements, a wretched villainy on the part of Man for his own death, like all those other millions of premature deaths, would have been due to the idiocy and brutality of men!
Naturally the man had been frightened with him carrying on in that way. I jumped out of the window to see if I could find the man and explain, but he was gone. Fred jumped out after me, and nearly squashed me. It was pitch dark out there. I couldn't see a thing. But I knew the man could not have gone far, or I should have heard him. I started to sniff round on the chance of picking up his trail.
Very still, as if fearing to betray itself by sound or movement, was her figure in its blue-green frock, and a brimless toque of brown straw, with two purplish roses squashed together into a band of darker velvet. Beside those roses a tiny peacock's feather had been slipped in unholy little visitor, slanting backward, trying, as it were, to draw all eyes, yet to escape notice.
"You'd better wait," said Paul, moving a little away, "until Grace comes back, dear. You can consult with her." Maggie said nothing. Next day Mrs. Constantine, Miss Purves, and Mrs. Maxse came to tea. They had tea in the drawing-room all amongst the squashed strawberries. Three large ferns in crimson pots watched them as they ate. Maggie thought: "Grace seems to have a passion for ferns."
"Yes, you ask me for protection which makes you very interesting; and then you won't take it. You say you want to be squashed " "Ah but not so easily! Don't you see," Strether demanded "where my interest, as already shown you, lies? It lies in my not being squared. If I'm squared where's my marriage? If I miss my errand I miss that; and if I miss that I miss everything I'm nowhere."
"My first party to-night wus a conversation one; that is for them that could talk; as for me I couldn't talk a bit, and all I could think was, 'how infarnal hot it is! I wish I could get in! or, 'oh dear, if I could only get out! It was a scientific party, a mob o' men. Well, every body expected somebody would be squashed to death, and so ladies went, for they always go to executions.
"And I'd have the hero squashed in the last act for a selfish sneak, and marry the girl to the villain he'd be more likely to make her happy in the end." "And what about the farm?" I asked. "I suppose you'd get some expert from the agricultural college to manage that?" "No," said Mitchell. "I'd get some poor drought-ruined selector and put him in charge of the vegetation.
The little light flared up steadily and showed two boys in pyjamas, the smooth cement walls of the tank, and the bushman in his shirt and trousers, but without his boots. It showed also a cat which had died a long time ago, and which had been dried up by the great heat. The sight of the squashed cat was so funny, down in the tank, that the boys started to laugh.
Everything was pitch black around, save when the lightning zigzagged through space, and lighted up all creation with its electric torch. "Looks like an all-night stand for Jerry. There comes that wind tearing things loose again. Wow! it was a big tree went down that time! Hope none of them take a notion to knock my poor old stump flat, or I'd be squashed into a pancake."
For he's a jolly good fellow!" began Jess; but Diana promptly squashed her. "Stop that noise! D'you want to give the whole show away, and have Lennie, and Nora, and Betty, and all the rest of the kids swarming down upon us? Anybody who can't keep quiet will be made to walk the plank. Yes, and splash into the river at the other end of it! We wouldn't pick you out either; we'd let you drown!"
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