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I could no more do it than the thunderstone could stay hid in the clouds when the storm calls it." "That is the right talk. It sounds like you." That pleased him. "I'm glad you know me. Some don't. But they will, presently. They will know me well enough before I get done with this war." "That is what I think. I believe that wherever danger confronts you you will make yourself conspicuous."
He had faced the devilish storms which swept the high veld with lightning and the thunderstone, striking men dead as they fled for shelter to the boulders of some barren, mocking kopje; and he had had the occasional wild nights of carousal, when the miseries and robberies of life and time and the ceaseless weariness and hope deferred, were forgotten.
Becket never examined an old play in his life: he does not seem to have the slightest knowledge of any writer, or any subject, or any language that ever occupied the attention of his contemporaries; and he possesses a mind as innocent of all requisite information as if he had dropped, with the last thunderstone, from the moon.
Had the passage been in verse, where the change might have damaged the rhythm, had it been one of those ecstasies of Shakspearian imagination, to tamper with which because we could not understand it would be Bottom-like presumption, one of those tempests of passion where every word reeks hot and sulphurous, like a thunderstone new-fallen, in any of these cases we should have agreed with Mr.
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