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It was pallor like that of the white rose after it has passed the perfection of its bloom and before it has begun to wither. Edith paused, still without drawing the misty eyes on herself. "Do you know the people in that house?" she asked, at last. The woman looked at her, not inquiringly or with much show of comprehension, but vaguely and as from a distance. Edith repeated the question.
Should a boy or a girl eat plains turkey or bustard eggs while they were yet wunnarl, or taboo, he or she would lose his or her sight. Should they eat the eggs or flesh of kangaroo or piggiebillah, their skins would break out in sores and their limbs wither. Even honey is wunnarl at times to all but the very old or very young.
It was a life too fine for every day, fare too rich for health; they must be exotics who did not wither in such hot-house air. It was rapidly becoming unnatural.
Shortly after leaving the ovary the ovum must receive the stimulus to live and grow; otherwise it will quickly wither and die. This vital stimulus can be imparted only by the spermatozoon. The male germinal cell is like the female cell in the possession of a nucleus; in other respects it is very different.
When the time came for it to die, you were sorry. But it did not seem to you strange or unnatural. There was no waste. Its mission was fulfilled. You understood why its petals should fall, its leaf wither, its root and branch decay. And even if a storm came and snapped it, still there was nothing lost that was indispensable, nothing that could not be restored.
Will you take the old Jewish oath?" up went two thousand hands, with one great chorus: "If I turn traitor to the cause I now pledge, may this hand wither from the arm I now raise." By this oath Rhona was bound.
"May God wither my tongue before ever it speaks to deceive you, Nan." "A while ago you frightened me so " "Frightened you! Great God!" He stepped closer and looked straight down into her eyes. "If you had raised just one finger when I was bluffing that fellow, I'd have calmed down and eaten out of your little hand, by the hour!" "There's not a moment to lose," she said swiftly.
They must either wither in the bud or be wrenched up root and branch." "And there's only the ugly reality, after all?" "There's only the reality, but it isn't ugly when one grows accustomed to it. You'll find it good enough for you yet, my child." "No no," she said, "I've always lived on pretty lies, I see that now I've always had to find an outlet for my imagination, however false.
Consequently they wither, because the constant expression of happiness which blooms on the faces of other women and gives so soft a grace to their movements has never existed for them. They grow sharp and peevish because all human beings who miss their vocation are unhappy; they suffer, and suffering gives birth to the bitterness of ill-will.
We must be ever alert that freedom does not wither through the careless amassing of restrictive controls or the lack of courage to deal boldly with the giant issues of the day. A year ago, when I met with you, the nation was emerging from an economic downturn, even though the signs of resurgent prosperity were not then sufficiently convincing to the doubtful.
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