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She had a sense almost of relief. "Charlotte " "John " "You asked me why I came here. You must have known why." "I didn't. I don't." "Can't you think?" "No, John. I've left off thinking. My thinking's never any use." "If you did think you'd know it was you." "Me?" "If it wasn't you just at first it was your face. There are faces that do things to you, that hurt you when they're not there.
The farmer praised Robert as a rare hand, but one affected with bees in his nightcap, who had ideas of his own about farming, and was obstinate with them; "pays you due respect, but's got a notion as how his way of thinking's better 'n his seniors. It's the style now with all young folks. Makes a butt of old Mas' Gammon; laughs at the old man. It ain't respectful t' age, I say.
The farmer praised Robert as a rare hand, but one affected with bees in his nightcap, who had ideas of his own about farming, and was obstinate with them; "pays you due respect, but's got a notion as how his way of thinking's better 'n his seniors. It's the style now with all young folks. Makes a butt of old Mas' Gammon; laughs at the old man. It ain't respectful t' age, I say.
Are we to think that our fingers and feet may move and so we live, or they to run for our thought, and we live to think?" "Supposing we are," said Herndon, "what practical good results from knowing it? Action for action's sake, or for thinking's sake, is still action, and all that we have to look out for. What business have the brakemen at the wheels with the destiny of the train?
What was a pity she did not divulge to herself. She concluded with, 'Well, well, the childless father no sinners, and hastily shut her eyes, realizing that another 'Amen' had nearly come. Edward's voice had taken a tone of relief which meant the end of a prayer. Mrs. Marston glanced up at him, and decided to put some aniseed in his tea. 'High thinking's as bad as an embolus, she thought.
"Thinking's not the right word," she corrected sharply. "I know." He shrugged. As he did so it struck him that there was nothing else for him to do. She had the trick of utter finality.
The entrance is so ridiculously small. I shall only stick and fill it up. Why did I ever come? Oh, why did I come at all? 'Better stay where you are, lady, the Guard was saying. 'You're good ballast. You can keep the train down. That's something. Steady thinking's always best, you know.
"And you're not cross about it?" "I'm not cross about anything; but I shall be if I don't have a mug of cider, for I've been thinking, and thinking's thirsty work." "Then you had been thinking that " "Never you mind what I had been thinking, my lass. My thoughts are mine, and your thoughts are yours, so keep 'em to yourself. When I've had my drop o' cider, I think I shall go out for a ride."
Just a hundred, and cutlasses in their hands." "Aye," said I, "and a tree for every rogue that rows a boat yonder. Well, my lad, thinking's no good this night, nor can you get the bluejackets by whistling. We haven't all served our time in a Queen's ship, Dolly, and we're just plain seamen; but we'll try and speak a word to Edmond Czerny by-and-bye, or I'll never speak another.
I felt somehow it would have been an easier job. You see, I never believed in the devil enough to be scared of him; but a man can make himself very unpleasant. I looked at a lot of doors, all shut tight, with a growing conviction that I would never have the pluck to open one of them. Thinking's no good for one's nerve. I concluded I would give up the whole business.
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