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There and then he deliberately set himself to resist mesmerism, which is the East's chief weapon.
And the louts come and pound at the great gates, and we pound back again, and shout at them. But this half we only sing in the hall. Come along down to my study." Their principal employment in the study was to clear out East's table; removing the drawers and ornaments and tablecloth; for he lived in the bottom passage, and his table was in requisition for the singing.
One day, as ill-luck would have it, the game became more exciting than usual, and the ball slipped through East's fingers, and rolled slowly down the steps and out into the middle of the school, just as the masters turned in their walk and faced round upon the desk.
"Nothing since old Lancaster " "I heard that Fraser wrote me." Lounsbury gritted his teeth. "And our poor Custer?" "Ah, poor Custer! The East's talking about nothing else." "Awful! awful!" The officer turned away to hide the twitching of his face. "Going to Lincoln now?" asked Lounsbury. "Not right away." "Then, I'm off." "For Lincoln?" "No, for Brannon." "Brannon! Alone? Lounsbury!
Easterners brought on the East's idea of property, of low interest, sure returns, and good security. In short, there was set on once more as there had been in every great movement across the entire West the old contest between property rights and human independence in action. It was now once more the Frontier against the States, and the States were foredoomed to win.
The machinery is the West's, the spirit is the East's or the South's. In other cities with trolley-cars they rush; here they saunter. In other new countries they have no time to be polite; here they are suave and kindly and even anxious to gossip.
The word "came" was the only clue to his meaning, for in the language he used "yesterday" and "to-morrow" are the same word; such is the East's estimate of time. "By what route did she go?" asked Rewa Gunga. "By the terrain from the station." "How knowest thou that?" "I was there, bearing her box of jewels." "Didst thou see her buy the tikkut?" "Nay, I bought it, for she ordered me."
But East's powers of remaining serious were exhausted, and in five minutes he was saying the most ridiculous things he could think of, till Tom was almost getting angry again. Despite of himself, however, he couldn't help laughing and giving it up, when East appealed to him with, "Well, Tom, you ain't going to punch my head, I hope, because I insist upon being sorry when you got to earth?"
'Why, the East's where the shrine is, of course. It pointed to the great stone. And still the shouting and the clash of stone on metal sounded nearer and nearer. The children could hear that the headmen had surrounded the hut to protect their treasure as long as might be from the enemy. But none dare to come in after the Psammead's sudden fierce biting of the headman.
Quaint and queer he was, even for the Orient, where queerness in men and things is commonplace and accepted as a part of the East's inseparable sense of mystery.
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