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This winter's going to be one of our old steadies, the way she acts so far. It's sure a fright, the way this weather eats up the hay." It was such incidents as these which weaned him again from his singing and his light-heartedness as the weeks passed coldly toward spring.
I could not tell who the delinquent might be, and, under advice, under advice, I resorted to the usual means of detection, and the result is that a marked coin placed in the till on Saturday was changed by you on Saturday night." A tremendous blow steadies some men, at least for a time. Tom quietly replied "Well, Mr. Furze, what then?" "What then?" said Mrs.
"He steadies me, mother." "Oh I wish you'd take me, Peter," Biddy broke out wistfully to her cousin. "To spend an hour with an old French actress? Do you want to go upon the stage?" the young man asked. "No, but I want to see something to know something." "Madame Carré's wonderful in her way, but she's hardly company for a little English girl."
Both disapproved of matrimony, not in the abstract, but in the concrete and personal view. They had long talks together on the subject, after Miss Vesta had gone to bed, sitting in the quaint parlour, which both considered the pleasantest room in the world. "It's all right for most men," he would say. "It steadies them, and does them good in a hundred ways.
The old-fashioned legal phrases soon were steadying him as the harness steadies an uneasy horse; and he was monotonously and sonorously rolling off paragraph after paragraph. Except the judge, young Hargrave was the only one there who clearly understood what those wordy provisions meant. As the reading progressed Dory's face flushed a deep red which slowly faded, leaving him gray and haggard.
The air currents set it spinning the moment it leaves its parent tree making of it at once a tiny gyroscope with a single blade of a propeller. Its gyroscopic quality steadies it and the whirl of its propeller tends always to lift its weight.
For Cupid, advancing to a slow tune, steadies with his wand the rolling mass upon the stage, that then begins to teem with its motley inhabitant, and just representative of the created world, active, wicked, gay, amusing, which gains your heart, but never your esteem: tricking, shifting, and worthless as it is but after all its frisks, all its escapes, is condemned at last to burn in fire, and pass entirely away.
And the experiment has another analogy to the noble occupation of levying toll upon the change of values a first brilliant success is often a misfortune, inducing an overestimate of capacity, while a very moderate success, recognized indeed only as a trial, steadies a man, and sets him upon that serious diligence upon which alone, either in art or business, any solid fortune is built.
She seemed to think some explanation necessary, though he did not. "One cup of tea agrees with my brain and nerves," said she. "It steadies them. That is a matter of individual experience. I should not prescribe it to others any the more for that." Vizard sat wondering at the girl. He said to himself, "What is she? A lusus naturoe?"
It beats the one down, makes him squalid, querulous, faithless, irreligious, drives him to drink, crushes him; and the other man it steadies and quiets and hardens, and teaches him to look beyond the things seen and temporal to the exceeding riches at God's right hand.
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