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Again, she favored him with that look of doubtful understanding; shaking her head with mock sadness, and making a long sigh. "Another twister" she said woefully "just when we were getting along so beautifully, too. Won't you try again?" "In words of one syllable then let him alone. He is, to-day, exactly where I was twenty years ago. For God's sake, let him alone.
The stronger harmony is caught up and carried on forever in endless sound waves, but the slight responsive murmur of the passive strings is lost and forgotten. And now you will tell me that I am making phrases. That is my profession: I am a twister of words; I torture language by trade.
The arm had been strained, and the big fellow nursed it. "Hell, but you're a twister!" the cattleman said with a grimace of pain. Billy Goat was a gentleman, after his kind, and he liked Sergeant Foyle with a great liking. He turned to the crowd and spoke. "Say, boys, this mine's worked out. Let's leave the Happy Land to Foyle. Boys, what is he what is he? What is Sergeant Foyle boys?"
The twister seems to be a simultaneous rushing in of tornado-like winds from every quarter and a whirling bluster of elements gone mad. And in that month the high tide is the highest in the year. For the household of Eben Tollman as well as for the weather the season seemed charged with the unquiet influences of equinox.
The arm had been strained, and the big fellow nursed it. "Hell, but you're a twister!" the cattleman said, with a grimace of pain. Billy Goat was a gentleman, after his kind, and he liked Sergeant Foyle with a great liking. He turned to the crowd and spoke. "Say, boys, this mine's worked out. Let's leave the Happy Land to Foyle. Boys, what is he what is he? What is Sergeant Foyle boys?"
He hated Catholicism and Protestantism alike, and Protestants and Catholics alike disowned him. To every Church and every sect he was a free thinker, destitute of all religion. Yet few men were more religious. His enemies called him a turner and a twister; yet on any one of his lines no man ever steered a straighter course. A capacity for turning and twisting might have saved him.
In yet worse taste is another piece of fustian, invented by the same author: "When a 'twister' off the hills gets ready to do business in a 20-knot sou'wester it sends no messenger boys ahead to distribute its itinerary handbills." There is no fault of style which these few lines do not display. They combine, with a singular success, commonness and pomp.
You were ready to believe any pretty woman, with soft English ways, an angel. Well, you have had a twister; but you'll come through it; and you will get to believe, after all, that women are very good creatures just as men are very good creatures, when you get the right sort.
Clinging to each other they made their way downstairs. Their father came after them, followed by other members of the moving picture company. "Is is there any safe place?" faltered Mr. Sneed, as he look anxiously about. "The cyclone cellar," answered one of the farm men. "All hands had better take to that. We're out of the path of the worst of the 'twister, but it's best to take no chances.
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