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It was gentle as her own spirit tent there was this that was strange and eerie about her unconsciousness that whereas she had been dumb while her mind in its dark cell must have been mistress of itself and of her soul, she spoke without ceasing throughout the time of her reason's vanquishment.
Tourists would arrive with the railroad; the powder-magazine would turn from a church into a museum; gardens would decay and ancient elms would fall, but the farmers and the cows would not be missed from their accustomed haunts. On the hospitable thresholds of "general" stores battle-scarred veterans of the war between the States dealt in victorious reminiscences of vanquishment.
Possibly the secret of our failure to conquer Nature lies in ourselves, and our own obstinate tendency to work in only one groove of what we term 'advancement, namely our material self- interest. Possibly we might be victors if we would, even to the very vanquishment of Death!
And he pointed to the bulgy-looking casket of sweet sleeping sounds sleeping generally so far as Villiers was concerned, but ready to wake at the first touch of the master-hand. Villiers glanced at it with a comical air of admiring vanquishment. "Oh, never mind the 'cello!" he said indifferently, "that can bear being put by for a while.
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