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Haley seemed to have made a good impression upon the three old dry-as-dust committeemen, especially on old Elder Concannon, the superannuated minister who had lived in Poketown for fifty years, although he had not preached at the Union Church, saving on special occasion, for two decades. "The Elder says he thinks this Haley'll do," said Marty, with a grin. "I heard him tell Walky Dexter so.
"It is certainly very strange," he murmured, "that the dry-as-dust knowledge of some member of the College of Heralds should evolve these armorial bearings with their weird significance. Does this account for your allusion to the supernatural?" "Partly. Do not forget my dream." "Tell it to me." "During the trials, my counsel, a very able man, by the way you know him, of course, Mr.
"It is the most touching thing I ever heard." The melody was Gaelic, slow and plaintive, and though Maggie gave the English words with her own patois, the beauty and simplicity of the song was by no means injured. "Put by the books, David," said Allan. "I have no heart now for dry-as-dust lessons. Let us speak of Maggie. How is she going to live when you go to Glasgow?"
He dragged his idol down into the dust, scoffed at the piecemeal passion which measures its gifts, the complacency of an analysed virtue, the sense of well-living and self-contentment achieved in the rubric of a dry-as-dust morality. She had failed him, offered him stones instead of bread.
Physical strength and courage at this time were his fetish. But he was still thoughtful. "Oh, that will come in time. If you think things are too easy, I might manage to make them a little harder." He laughed affectionately and clapped me on the shoulder. "Oh, no, you don't, old Dry-as-dust. Not books. That isn't what I meant. I mean life, struggles against odds.
Fearlessly she held his fingers for a moment, a long, wonderful moment. "I was getting past enthusiasms," he said; "I was dropping into the dry-as-dust school the argumentative, logical, cold, ineffectual school. The last few months have changed that. I feel young again. If Dartrey will give me a free hand, I'll deliver up to him Miller's bones."
The weeks went swiftly and pleasantly enough; but his red-letter day was the Saturday afternoon that brought him to his darling. And she, buried among her dry-as-dust school-books and classic lore how she looked forward to the weekly day of grace no words of mine can tell. But with the first bright days of April came a change.
"My friend," he said, "there is no philosophy save one. A child cries for the star he may not have; the weak man comforts himself in privation by repeating to himself the dry-as-dust axioms conceived in an alien brain, and weaving from them the miserable comfort of empty words. The man who knows life and has found wisdom, pays the price for the thing he desires, and obtains it!"
She was faint for want of food, having taken nothing since her apology for breakfast at seven o'clock. 'Can one get a cup of tea here? she asked of the dry-as-dust matron in charge of the waiting-room; whereupon the matron good-naturedly offered to fetch her some tea.
The rhetoric professor was asked what kind of a man the philosopher had been personally, and answered briskly: "Oh, nobody knew him personally ... the silent old codger. He was a dry-as-dust, bloodless, secular monk " He was interrupted by a laugh from the art-critic, whose eyes were still on the portrait. "Excuse me for my cynical mirth," he said, "but I must say he doesn't look it.
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