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If anything were clear to him, it was that the present situation was not, with the majority of them, a matter of doctrines, but of unwillingness to accept the message and precept of Jesus Christ, and lead Christian lives. They had made use of the doctrines as a stalking-horse. There was a stir at this, and Hodder paused a moment and glanced around the table. But no one interrupted.
If he cannot stir the emotions of the soul he subdues and absorbs the attention against even the dictates of the better taste; while genuiue beauties gleaming through picturesque rubbish often repay the true musician for what he has undergone. So far this composer has been essentially representative of melodramatic music, with all the faults and virtues of such a style.
He'll get hisself that drunk, you won't be able to stir him. And it is my own box, Mr Whittlestaff?" To all which Mr Whittlestaff turned a deaf ear. She should find that there was no maundering softness with him now. He felt within his own bosom that it behoved him to learn to become stern and cruel.
"Does this Kinglet lay two little white eggs, like the Hummingbird?" asked Nat. "No," said the Doctor, "this sturdy bird lays eight or ten white eggs with brown spots." "Ten eggs!" cried Dodo. "How can it sit on them all at once and keep them warm enough to hatch?" "Perhaps the birds stir the eggs up every day to give them all an even chance," said Rap.
'I don't know, she replied in her gentle, inattentive manner, as if she did not care at all. 'I think it will be a mixed day cloud and sun more sun than cloud. She looked up gravely to see if he agreed. He turned from frowning at the cloud to smile at her. He seemed so bright, teeming with life. 'I like a bare blue sky, he said; 'sunshine that you seem to stir about as you walk.
He was tall and of familiar figure, and the firelight was playing in the tossed curls of his short, fair hair. "In there," said the judge, "if you care to go." Ollie did not stir. Her feet felt rooted to the floor in the wonder and doubt of this strange occurrence. "Ollie!" cried the man at the hearthstone, calling her name imploringly. He came forward, holding out pleading hands.
His voice died away. After a long pause, "You may make the arrangements," she told him in a still, tenacious little voice, "but you cannot make me marry him.... I will never put on the marriage dress.... Never wear the diadem.... Never stir one step within his house." A complete silence succeeded this declaration. He got up violently from beside her. She did not dare look at him.
To my surprise, it was Paul and his wife, with their two oldest children, these last being quite delighted with the stir, and showing so much illumination, in the lee of the house, that it was quite a Feast of Lanterns. They seemed a little surprised at meeting us, too; but we might as well have talked from Point Judith to Beaver Tail as to have attempted conversation there.
When she did finally get up, she had lost all count of the time, but Michael was there, and the children were trying to get a handkerchief from the pocket of a coat suspended from the ceiling by a cord. "Get it so carefully that you will not stir the coat, and you will have a piece of candy." The children tried again and again. Martha groaned and disturbed them.
The young people read the proclamations eagerly, and said excitedly: "It's all true!" The majority, broken down with their work, and indifferent to everything, said lazily: "Nothing will come of it. It is impossible!" But the leaflets made a stir among the people, and when a week passed without their getting any, they said to one another: "None again to-day!
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