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These young doctors are particularly strong, as I understand, on what they call diagnosis, an excellent branch of the healing art, full of satisfaction to the curious practitioner, who likes to give the right Latin name to one's complaint; not quite so satisfactory to the patient, as it is not so very much pleasanter to be bitten by a dog with a collar round his neck telling you that he is called Snap or Teaser, than by a dog without a collar.
It is her right to get acquainted with me just as if I belonged to her alone. You understand what I mean, Bucky. She must not feel as if she never had found me, as if she never had been first with me. We can love each other more simply if she doesn't know about you. We'll have it for a secret for a month or two." She put her little hand on his arm appealingly to win his consent.
It's a habit I have, and I don't quite understand you. I must think it over." "Do, Mr. Carey. And now I must toddle along. Adios." Carey shook his hand, and they parted. Our story is told. San Pasqual is still a frontier town a little drearier, a little shabbier and more down at the heel than when we saw it first.
It was noticeable in his manner this evening when he shook hands with a murmured word or two. Thyrza, however, appeared a little less timid than usual; she just met his look, and in a questioning way which he could not understand at the time.
"Of course!" said Father Payne, "but the use of art, as I understand it, is just that that all you present shall have life, and that you should learn not to present what has not got life. Why I objected to your last essay was because you were not alive in it: you were just echoing and repeating things: you seemed to me to be talking in your sleep.
Hours later, he called us to the living room and began to talk. And talk. And talk. I tried to understand how his words were affecting us. I thought in terms of computers. I decided that he had rebooted us with LSD and now, as we were coming down, he was downloading his wordy operating system to our unformatted, receptive minds. "He's formatting us like floppy disks!" I thought.
My Lord tells me that he observes the Duke of York do follow and understand business very well, and is mightily improved thereby. Here Mr. This morning Mr.
He leaned back like a man who can no longer carry his burdens, informing Jonathan, on his coming up to place the roll of bread and firm butter, that he was forty seconds too fast, as if it were a capital offence, and he deserved to step into Eternity for outstripping Time. 'But, I daresay, you don't understand the importance of a minute, said the old gentleman, bitterly. 'Not you, or any of you.
They're a blamed slow lot and we ain't. That's all there is of it. What do you think, Captain?" "I fear," said Sam, "that they don't quite understand the great blessings we're conferring on them." "What blessings?" asked the drummer. "Why," said Sam, "liberty and independence no, I don't mean independence exactly, but liberty and freedom."
"You please yourself and your own fanciful temperament by those arguments," said Angela, "but they are totally without principle. Oh, why," and raising her eyes, she fixed them on him with an earnest look, "Why will you not understand? Sylvie is good and pure, why would you persuade her to be otherwise?" Fontenelle rose and took one or two turns up and down the room before replying.
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