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"Then you think " faltered the boy. "I don't think! I know that you come of fine, upstanding stock! And it's about time you moved out of Minetta Lane and gave your good blood a chance!" Enoch's lips quivered, and he turned his head toward the fire. Seaton waited, patiently. After a while he said, "Enoch, the most important thing in a man's life is his philosophy. What do you think life is for?
The upstanding corners of his moustache, his upright carriage, and the ineffaceable mark left upon him by his short term of military service for conscription obtains in Maäsau had their effect upon Rallywood. He picked out the soldier from the chancellor and saluted in silence. Selpdorf smiled. Yet he wished the man had spoken! so much may be deduced from a tone of voice.
The curtain again became agitated by some unseen force, violently this time, and from its depths a plaintive voice made itself heard. "Dash it all," said the voice, "I've stuck!" There was another upheaval, and his lordship emerged, his yellow locks ruffled and upstanding, his face crimson. "Caught my head in a coat or something," he explained at large. "Hullo, Pitt!"
There was nothing very unusual about the woman, save that she united several qualities that one would not have thought could be found together. She was young, certainly still in her middle twenties, yet worn; florid yet haggard; exuberant and upstanding of body, yet bowed at the shoulders as if she were fragile. But the man was odd enough.
I watched him with a curious fascination, and as I grew sleepier and sleepier that part of my consciousness which was not counting steps, recognized him as a cripple who had come out to Mesopotamia in this special rôle 'to do his bit. His humped back, protruding under his mackintosh as he labored forward, bent into a hoop, must have suggested the idea which was accepted as fact until I pulled myself together at the next halt and heard the mechanical and unimaginative half of me repeat 'Four thousand, seven hundred, and twenty-one. The man raised himself into erectness with a groan, and a crippled greengrocer whom I had known in my youth, to me the basic type of hunchback became an upstanding British private.
"Only way he shows his years he ain't so fond of fallin' as he was. And I don't blame him. Round about forty a man begins to get a bit brittle like." He lilted off after his jockey. Goosey Gander stood stripped of everything but his bridle, with dark flanks and lowered head reaching at his bit. He was a typical Woodburn horse: a great upstanding bay, full of bone and quality. But he showed wear.
One description paints them both; doubtless their harmony of mind had contributed more than Mary's sweet expression and finely cut features, or John's upstanding six feet, and honest capable face, to produce that attachment between them which had, six months before this story begins, culminated in their engagement. Once arrived at, this ending seemed to have been inevitable.
Jerry quivered at first, and in the matter of a minute struggled feebly to his feet where he stood swaying and dizzy; and thus Bashti, his eye to the crack, saw the miracle of life flow back through the channels of the inert body and stiffen the legs to upstanding, and saw consciousness, the mystery of mysteries, flood back inside the head of bone that was covered with hair, smoulder and glow in the opening eyes, and direct the lips to writhe away from the teeth and the throat to vibrate to the snarl that had been interrupted when the stick smashed him down into darkness.
When that flood subsided there would be fields to be planted with dourha and onions and sugar-cane; but they whose strong arms should plough and sow and wield the sickle, the youth, the upstanding ones, had been carried off in chains to serve in the army of Egypt, destined for the far Soudan, for hardship, misery, and death, never to see their kindred any more.
Later in the day he assisted the sergeant in making out the detachment's "monthly returns" and diary. This task accomplished, in the gathering dusk he attended "Evening Stables." There were two saddle-horses beside the previously-mentioned team. A splendid upstanding pair, George thought them.
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