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"I will not spoil the experiment by satisfying my desire for good things." "Will any other member of the audience?" said Uncle Richard merrily, looking round at Tom. "I won't, uncle, thankye," said the lad. "You might have labelled the bottles wrongly." "Wise boy," said the Vicar; "but, by the way, where's the lump of beaten-out silver to be affixed to the glass?"
Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created things. There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation. The thin beaten-out leaf of tremulous gold that chronicles the direction of forces the eye cannot see is in comparison coarse.
"In dat case Ah gwine lay yo' down on de groun' to fin' yo' breff." Sambo's idea of laying Tom down was to give him a violent twist that brought the lad flat on the ground at his captor's feet. Then the negro sat on his captive to make sure that the latter did not escape. "Take yo' time -ah got plenty," grimaced the black man. Slowly the beaten-out breath came back to Tom Reade.
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