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'Why absurd? asked Maulevrier, sitting where she bade him, and studiously perusing the name in his hat, as if it were a revelation. 'Oh, for a thousand reasons, answered Lesbia, switching the flowers in the balcony with her light little whip.
"Why, what is the matter?" asked Kennedy, placing a chair and switching on an electric fan, while he quickly found a bottle of restorative salts which was always handy for emergencies in the laboratory. "Oh such a time as I've had! Wait let me see whether I can recollect it in order." A few minutes later she resumed. "I went in, as before.
"Only, that you will act honourably and straightforwardly that you will not touch what is not your own " Hugo shook off the kindly hand and started up with something like an oath upon his lips. "Why are you always talking about that affair! I thought it was past and done with," he said, turning his back upon his cousin, and switching the grass savagely with his cane. "Always talking about it!
A flood of fair light flashed in sweet torrent into the place and there, framed in the doorway, but far across the green field, stood the red cow, switching her tail. "And here comes my resurrection!" cried Leopold. "I have not had long to wait for it have I?" He smiled a pained content as he spoke, and they bore him out into the sun and air.
On the bank of the Isar lies the scene of her best novel, The Switching Station . In this book she is a disciple of naturalism, not merely in respect to the fidelity with which life in the art centre and the restless haste and nervous disorderliness in an artist's family are depicted, but also in the use of symbolism after the manner of Zola: for the switching station, with its purposeless turmoil, its disquietude, its pulling and hauling, is a symbol for the noisy life in general, and in particular for the comfortless, hapless marriage in which a delicately organized artistic soul is worried to death.
"That may be so; but I want to speak with your chief, and I must see him alone." "Assuredly thou art a saucy knave, and might be improved by a switching." "Possibly; but instead of wasting our time in useless talk, it would be well to convey my message to Gadarn, for my news is urgent; and I would not give much for your head if you delay."
Hignett incredulously. Jane Hubbard returned from the drawing-room, where she had been switching off the orchestrion. "Let us talk all that over cosily to-morrow," she said. "The point now is that there are burglars in the house." "Burglars!" cried Mr. Bennett aghast. "I thought it was you playing that infernal instrument, Mortimer."
"Get the switches!" ordered Lew Flapp, and from a corner a number of long, heavy switches were brought forth and passed around. Things began to look serious and it must be confessed that Dick's heart beat fast, for he had no desire to undergo a switching at the hands of such a cold-hearted crowd, who would be sure to lay on the strokes heavily. "Don't you strike me," said Dick, thinking rapidly.
I followed his injunctions until he said it was enough. Then more steam was raised after a while, and after this was done all shouted, "Let us have another switching before we go." At last I went out with a few of the men, when, lo! they rolled over two or three times in the snow, calling out to me to do likewise; that it felt so good. I did what they bade me to do. How nice it was!
What was Ascher doing? Ascher's servant followed me into the study. He placed a little table beside the chair on which I sat. He set a decanter of whisky, a syphon of soda water and a box of cigars at my elbow. He brought a reading lamp and put it behind me, switching on the electric current so that the light fell brightly over my shoulder. He turned off the other lights in the room.
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