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But perhaps a better mind as well as a better body may come to the poor child in time." Then to Ruth he added, more personally: "Remember you have a friend in here behind the green lamps. Don't forget to come to him with any troubles you may have. Perhaps I do not look it, but I am something like a fairy godmother I have a wonderful power of transmogrification.
Sampson gazed upon her with astonishment, and clapping both hands to his head, as if to assure himself that his exterior was yet in a healthful condition, whatever transmogrification the interior might have undergone, he exclaimed, "I'm not so sure, after all, that my name's Sampson!
If you had happened to live near the town of Mendota, Illinois, and had known the German grocer-boy named Otto Hanisch, you might at first have trouble in recognizing him through this transmogrification.
"Well, I'm blowed, here's a transmogrification; he's consolidified himself into a blessed brick my eye, here's a curiosity." "But you don't mean to say that's the butcher, Dick?" said the boy. Dick reached over, and gave him a tap on the head with the brick. "There!" he said, "that's what I calls occular demonstration. Do you believe it now, you blessed infidel? What's more natural?
Coleridge also contributed to Southey's Joan of Arc certain lines of which, many years afterwards, he wrote in this humorously exaggerated but by no means wholly unjust tone of censure: "I was really astonished at the schoolboy, wretched, allegoric machinery; at the transmogrification of the fanatic Virago into a modern novel-pawing proselyte of the Age of Reason a Tom Paine in petticoats; at the utter want of all rhythm in the verse, the monotony and dead plumb-down of the pauses, and at the absence of all bone, muscle, and sinew in the single lines."
No, there is yet another the incredibly short space of time in which the refined and civilized being can turn into a stony-hearted demon; and the causes which accomplish such transmogrification are twain the parting with all his illusions, and the parting with all his cash." These ruminations were cut short in a manner that was violent, not to say alarming.
Within the parlor the little lady, as Jamie already called her, was given undisputed sway; and a strange transmogrification there she made. The pink shells were collected from the mantel, and piled, with others she had got, to represent a grotto, in one corner of the room; the worked samplers were thought ugly, and banished upstairs.
"Now," said Singleton, as he took from a drawer in the chart case a large-scale chart of Cuba, and laid it on top of the case, "how long do you suppose it will take you to effect the transmogrification of this ship by means of that disguise of yours?"
And so I sowed an effectual seed of opposition to Mr Plan, in a quarter he never dreamt of; the two dominies, in the dread of undergoing some transmogrification, laid their heads together, and went round among the parents of the children, and decried the academy project, and the cess that the cost of it would bring upon the town; by which a public opinion was begotten and brought to a bearing, that the magistrates could not resist; so the old school-house was repaired, and Mr Plan's scheme, as well as the other, given up.
However, if some such transmogrification has been effected, it is marvellous that it should have obliterated so little of the inimitable handiwork of the master.
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