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A shining angled pillar that, though rigid, immobile, seemed to crouch, be instinct with living force striving to be unleashed. Two great globes surmounted it like the heads of some two-faced Janus of an alien world. At the left and right the knobbed arms, now fully fifty feet in length, writhed, twisted, straightened; flexing themselves in grotesque imitation of a boxer.
That, little sir, you can't understand; but you may believe an old man like me! The real history of the two-faced Janus where he came from, and how he came into Alexey Sergeitch's hands no one knew; but the story of Prince L. was well known to every one. He went, a lad of twenty, of a wealthy and distinguished family, to Petersburg, to serve in a regiment of the Guards.
"Two-faced would be a better word," I growled. Champion clapped me on the shoulder. "Adrian," said he, "in time of peace there is always a large, critical, neutral, and infernally irritating party, for ever philandering betwixt and between two extremes of opinion. But when war is declared and it comes to a fight, the ranks close up. There is no room for detachment, and there are no neutrals.
"I never in my life," declared Niafer, "knew anybody to go off so terribly in their looks as that two-faced cat has done since the first time I saw her prancing on her tall horse and rolling her snake eyes at you. As for being fond of me, I trust her exactly as far as I can see her." "Yet, Niafer, I have heard you declare, time and again " "But if you did, Manuel, one has to be civil."
His glittering eyes rested for a moment in bantering triumph on Mary. "Who says I'm squiffed? Me? Not on your life. I'm seein' all things in a clear white light. An' I see Bill there, my old friend Bill. An' I don't see two Bills. I see only one. Bill was never two-faced in his life. Bill, old man, when I look at you there in the married harness, I'm sorry " He ceased abruptly and turned on Mary.
"But he told me he was a friend of the owner," objected Mary Rose, when she understood. "I guess he isn't a friend to anyone but himself," murmured Bob Strahan. Mary Rose sat there in the car and tried to think it out. If Mr. Wells really did own this strange two-faced building why hadn't he told her so when she had asked him to plead for her?
"It seems to be bad luck to go against him, and so I am going to keep away from him in the future. Poor Gage! Merriwell was bad medicine for him." Bascomb was a coward, but he could hate intensely in his two-faced, treacherous way. The moment Merriwell joined the group, Bascomb noted it. "He's watching Rains," mentally decided the big plebe. "He wants to see what the fellow is made of."
Carlyle's cardinal book, is perhaps as good a name as another for this two-faced yet integral philosophy, which teaches us to behold with cheerful serenity the great gulf which is fixed round our faculty and existence on every side, while it fills us with that supreme sense of countless unseen possibilities, and of the hidden, undefined movements of shadow and light over the spirit, without which the soul of man falls into hard and desolate sterility.
Each of them emanates twelve two-faced æons after the type of Sêtheus. Each of the Paternities in His right hand emanates three hundred and sixty-five powers, according to the word that David spake, saying, "I will cherish the crown of the year in Thy Righteousness."
"But God have mercy, why isn't he a philosopher?" replied Alexyéi Sergyéitch. "Just observe, my little gentleman, how finely he holds his tongue!" "But why is he two-faced?" "Because, my young sir, he has one face outside; there it is for you, ninny, and judge it.... But the other, the real one, he hides.
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