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It was his belief that there was not a steam-roller in all Italy, and he seemed to reserve an opinion of the government's motives in the matter with respect to motors, as if he thought them bad. The scenery of the Campagna was not varied.
"Well, what is it now?" she asked. He had not heard her enter, and now flashed around, casting in her face like a hard-thrown missile, "Lydia's engaged." All Mrs. Sandworth's lassitude vanished. She flung herself on him in a wild outcry of inquiry "Which one? Which one?" He answered her angrily, "Which do you suppose? Doesn't a steam-roller make some impression on a rose?"
"Lord, you ought to have seen them run! Servants, neighbours, friends they all skedaddled, and you couldn't have driven them back with a steam-roller! I telegraphed to Redding for a nurse. Until she came Mrs. Orde stayed by, like a brick. Don't know what I should have done without her. There was nobody to do anything at all. As soon as the nurse came Mrs. Orde gave up her post.
A dried-up, yellow little man, cynical and weary in the face, as if a moral steam-roller had passed over it, answered this call, and stood, sniffing, as it were, at Shelton, on whom he made the singular impression of some little creature in a cage. "He left here ten days ago, in the company of a mulatto. What do you want with him, if I may ask?"
The triumph for the Progressive party lay in the certainty that its emergence had compelled the election of a President whose face was toward the future. If the Roosevelt delegates at Chicago in June had acquiesced in the result of the steam-roller Convention, it is highly probable that Woodrow Wilson would not have been the choice of the Democratic Convention that met later at Baltimore.
Is it accomplished with you? I have been speaking about the divine counsel which is a 'good pleasure, which runs through the whole history of mankind. But it is a divine purpose that you can thwart as far as you are concerned. 'How often would I have gathered ... and ye would not, and your 'would not' neutralises His 'would. Do not stand in the way of the steam-roller.
Echmeyer: he's some Jew; worth every cent of fifty thousand dollars. They calls him congeneyetul, 'cause he was born with his legs lef off him. Fun Barnheim: he's German, went asleep in the shade of a steam-roller, and never woke up till his legs was rolled out flat as a pair of pants that's just bin ironed. Then o' course there's Blizzard." Barbara was smiling. "What became of his legs, Bubbles?"
He had apparently been down to the cellar for reinforcements, for there were a couple of bottles under his arm. "Hullo, Bertie," he said. "You back?" He laughed amusedly. "You look like the Wreck of the Hesperus. Get run over by a steam-roller or something?" At any other time I might have found his coarse badinage hard to bear.
"Wait until I get Married," Florine would say. "I'll make that 20-hour Flyer look like a Steam-Roller. If Mother doesn't let up on me, I'll learn to smoke Cigarettes." At times she was so Desperate that she was ready to join a Troupe or elope with a Drummer. She wanted to get out among the Bright Lights and hear the Band play.
"Well," said Joe, "you don't mean to say you're going about with that thing in your pocket, you?" "Why not?" "Oh! No reason why not! But you ought to be preceded by a chap with a red flag, you know, same as a steam-roller." And the alderman, ignoring this, remarked with curt haughtiness: "Every man ought to have a revolver."
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