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I saw the fleshless jaws clamp, then opened to speak. Abruptly, upon the skeletons in front the flesh dropped back. Girl and woman stood there once again robed in beauty. So swift was that transition from the grisly unreal to the normal that even to my unsuperstitious mind it smacked of necromancy.
This mode of augury, through secondary interpretations of chance words, is not, as some readers may fancy, an old, obsolete, or merely Jewish form of seeking the divine pleasure. About a century ago, a man so famous, and by repute so unsuperstitious, as Dr.
Since the surface of the little pool, as one gazes at it, does not reflect the sky, but only the overhanging, dark, mossy rock, the water looks black and forbidding, even to unsuperstitious Yankees. It is easy to believe that simple-minded Indian worshipers in this secluded spot could readily believe that they actually saw the Devil appearing "as a visible manifestation" in the water.
Had they, then, some significance? I had not been able to convince myself that they were the work of a crank, alone. There must be some one to whom the execution of vengeance of the gods was an imperative duty. Unsuperstitious as I was, I saw here a real danger.
I come now to the system of selecting officials by competitive examination, without which it is hardly likely that so literary and unsuperstitious a system as that of Confucius could have maintained its hold. The view of the modern Chinese on this subject is set forth by the present President of the Republic of China, Hsu Shi-chang, in his book on China after the War, pp. 59-60.
His practical and unsuperstitious partner opened and read the letters. While Denham was thus engaged a tap came to the door, and old Mr Summers entered the room. "Ah! Summers, glad to see you, how are you?" said Denham, somewhat heartily for him.
They were kindly enough men and sincerely wished to help him. But luck ran against him. With the obstinacy of unsuperstitious gamblers he insisted on fighting Fate. He was a bull in a bear market; and the more he lost the more he thought the inevitable "rally" in prices was due.
The first glance was admiration alone, the second brought a thrill of something uncomfortably like fear, for to the most unsuperstitious of minds there was still something unpleasantly eerie in this unexpected apparition.
"He come up out of the river!" shrilled one as he ran. "I seen him! An' I seen him go under a year back! He come hell a rippin' up through the bushes an' a she one a follerin'!" Men crowded about the bolder spirits, the matter of fact, and the unsuperstitious among the crew and Bill turned again to Moncrossen, who stood rooted in his tracks.
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