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Updated: May 9, 2025
"Now, if you won't think me rude for the suggestion, I'd be willing to bet you a hundred pounds to a fiver that you and Driscoll were doing me the honour of discussing some of my affairs, if not myself, when I happened to look in just now." Here was a good opening for a conversation unweighted by polite fictions, and I unhesitatingly accepted it.
Here, unweighted by a heavy sense of a mission, he either revels in making beautiful though never supremely beautiful tunes for their own sake, or he actually expresses with beauty and considerable fidelity certain definite emotions.
She turned on 'Dolph, scolding, commanding him to be quiet; and 'Dolph subsided on his haunches and watched her, his stump tail jerking to and fro beneath him like an unweighted pendulum. There was a label attached to the straw bands. She turned it over and read: James Gavel, Proprietor, Imperial Steam Roundabouts, Henley-in-Arden.
We slid down the sloping side of the Planetara. We were unweighted, irrationally agile with this slight gravity. I fell a dozen feet and landed with barely a jar. We were out on the Lunar surface. A great sloping ramp of crags stretched down before us. Gray-black rock tinged with Earthlight. The Earth hung amid the stars in the blackness overhead like a huge section of a glowing yellow ball.
So, if Margaret had her doubts, she put them arbitrarily down, and sent her brother away with manifold tokens of her love among them, with a check on the Kirkwall Bank for sixty pounds, the whole of her personal savings. To this frugal Arcadean maid it seemed a large sum, but she hoped by the sacrifice to clear off Ronald's college debts, and thus enable him to start his new race unweighted.
Sometimes, as in many modern biographies, one 'cannot see the wood for the trees, and misses the main drift and aim of a life in the chaos of a bewildering mass of nothings. How much more happy the lot of this man of whom we have only the generalised expression of the text, unweighted and undisturbed by petty incidents!
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