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Neighbor's task was to supply the motive power. All that we had, uncrippled, was in the passenger service, because passengers should be taken care of first of all. In order to win a strike, you must have public opinion on your side. "Nevertheless, Neighbor," said I, after we had talked awhile, "we must move the silk also." Neighbor studied; then he roared at his foreman.
It was Brissac, the invalided assistant, who cried, "Hold on, Mr. Adair it's Ford, and he's hurt!" Ford met the involuntary rush, gathered the two in his uncrippled arm and dragged them to the floor. "That's in case my assassin takes a notion to turn loose on the windows," he panted. Then he gasped out his story while Brissac got the aching right arm out of its sleeve and looked for the injury.
Loosening these abundant locks, she shook them down and gathered them into her one uncrippled hand, preparatory to twisting them into the usual knot at the back of her head, the while she looked at the little sculptured amorini set round the mirror, with a compassionate smile.
All was melancholy and silence and the massed defiance of ever-impending ruin. Storm, and avalanche, and the bitter snap of frost had wrought their havoc year by year, till an uncrippled branch was a rare distinction. The very saplings, of stunted growth, bore the air of thieves reared in a rookery of crime.
Still, as pretty much all the uncrippled inhabitants of the district were going the same way, our flight was not conspicuous. It was, as Evan had promised, a glorious fire! Long before we reached the Hudson the sky rayed and flamed with all the smokeless change of the Northern Lights.
I'll open up and give you a taste of what poor Henley felt the first time his crippled body and his big, uncrippled spirit tasted the delight of 'Speed. Remember?" "Indeed I do. Oh, I'm not complaining. You understand that, Red?" "Of course I understand absolutely. And I understand that you need just what I say to blow off a lot of steam.
"Not at all," she said, breaking it off altogether. As the mist cleared she had a vivid impression of a tall, fair young man against a background of palms. "Eyes burning under a white marble mantel-piece," she summed up his face. Could this uncrippled, rather good-looking person be Bob? "Won't you come in, Mr. Robert?" she said riskily.
He understands what one says, and he is charming looking." "Of course, I think so." "And this is the genuine thing, Rachel? Do you remember our talk last summer?" Rachel was silent a moment. "All I can say is," she said, brokenly, "that I thank God, day and night, that Mr. Tristram did not marry me that I'm free to marry Hugh." Hester's uncrippled hand stole into Rachel's.
There arose smoke and shouts and shrieks, the thunder from the Mathews Hill of the North's uncrippled artillery, and from the plateau the answering thunder of the Southern, with the under song, incessant, of the muskets.
It is her business and duty, no matter how hard may be to her the trial, to see that this child, above all others, shall be taught patience, gentleness, good temper, and self-control in all its varieties, nor should she fail to point out, as health returns and years go by, that it is not all of life to be straight and uncrippled. I need not dwell on this.
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