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And this condition, so suggestive of the play of pure imagination, this plight of being a two-faced world, like the god Janus, one face light and the other face dark, must be the actual state of things on Mercury. There is one interesting qualification.
The serious business happily done, they tenderly groomed the buckskin and returned him to the corral, gave him a good supply of hay and said good-bye to the drunken Indians, the two-faced Chamreau, and the glorious Yellowbank, with its lonely lodge, its strange corral and its growlsome Indian dog. Preparing For the Day
It now turned a white brick face to her. Mary Rose almost forgot her errand when she saw that. In Mifflin houses were the same color all the way around. "Why why, it's two-faced!" she cried. "The front is all red and now the back is all white. It's just like an enchanted palace." "It is an enchanted palace," grumbled the man. Mary Rose flew to his side. "Oh, is there a princess there?
One of the ways in which the torture was formerly administered in Spain, was by making the patient swallow pieces of gauze in water. Finally, the two-faced doubloon was given to Preciosa, who told her companions that she would change it, and share the amount honourably with them.
He had also a conception of the gradual development on the earth of higher and higher forms of life, the first being rude and imperfect, and a 'struggle for existence' ensuing in which the monstrous and the deficient gradually were eliminated the "two-faced, the double-breasted, the oxen-shaped with human prows, or human-shaped with head of ox, or hemaphrodite," and so forth.
"She confessed that she had written it partly at your dictation, Lady Kirton, and said but I had better not tell you that, perhaps." "Then you shall tell me, Lord Hartledon; and you are a two-faced man, if you shuffle out of it." "Very well.
Mary Rose smiled radiantly as she obeyed and, with George Washington cuddled against her, she told him all about it. "My Uncle Larry," she began very importantly, "is the janitor of that wonderful two-faced palace." "Is he, indeed," remarked Jerry Longworthy, lighting his pipe. "But he doesn't own it. At first I thought he did. I used to live in Mifflin, where there aren't any houses like that.
She's ordered me off the place more than once, and yet in her soul I believe she agrees with me." "But, Rob, if that is a pet theory of yours that you go around applying in a wholesale way, isn't it barely possible that you've made a mistake this time and imagined that Bernice is two-faced in her friendship?" Rob shook his head. "She'll be at the station this morning.
The subtle flattery of the photograph is very grateful to us mortals whether we admit it or not. My friend Baxter introduced me once as a man who is not two-faced, and went on to explain that if I had had two faces I'd have brought the other instead of this one. And that's true. I expect the photographer to evoke another face for me, and hence my generous gift of money to him.
Walter thumped the table with his fist, growing angry suddenly. "You're a hanged two-faced fraud!" he huskily cried. "That's jusht what you are, Ditson! Somebody's been telling things to the sophs. They found out everything. It was you! And you pumped your points out of me when I was full." "That didn't hurt you," Ditson hastened to declare.
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