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Page 141 - daily life — his own and the life of his friends. Then I escaped before the blessing, desiring no benediction at such hands. But the persons who listened seemed to enjoy themselves, and I understood that I had met with a popular preacher. Later on when.
Page 226 - Two or three men with uneasy consciences have quietly slipped out of the coffee-shop into the mazes of the huts. The Police laugh, and those nearest in the crowd laugh applausively, as in duty bound. Perhaps the rabbits grin uneasily when the ferret lands at the bottom of the burrow and begins to clear the warren. "The
Page 266 - who play tennis and billiards at the institute not a minute which they can rightly call their very own ? Would it ruin the richest Company in India to lend their model-shop and their lathes to half a dozen, or, for the matter of that, half a hundred, abortive experiments ? A Massachusetts organ factory, a
Page 224 - to a certain extent." And, indeed, it seemed no difficult thing to be friends to any extent with the Dainty Iniquity who was so surpassingly different from all that experience taught of the beauty of the East. Here was the face from which a man could write
Page 256 - Toon," with a chorus as true as the fall of trip-hammers, and fancy that you are back again in the smoky, rattling, ringing North ! But this is the " unofficial " side. Go forward ^ through the gates under the mango trees, and set foot at once in sheds which have as
Page 184 - and sniff the smoke, and turn his face toward the tumult, saying: "This is, at last, some portion of my heritage returned to me. This is a city. There is life here, and there should be all manner of pleasant things for the having, across the river and under the smoke.
Page 105 - Army, which is a dear little army, should be kept to itself, blooded on detachment duty, turned into the paths of science, and now and again assembled at feasts of Freemasons and so forth. It's too tiny to be a political power. The immortal wreck of the Grand Army of the
Page 14 - I was a barbarian not to see it in that light. « Well, and after ? " said I. " What happens ? " " We work for our bread." " And then what do you expect ? " " Then we shall work for our bread." "Till you die?" " Ye-es — unless — " " Unless what ? A man works till he dies." "So shall we.
Page 249 - being filthy and unwashen, dirty to look at, and dirty to live in. Having cast this small stone, we will examine Jamalpur. When it was laid out, in or before the Mutiny year, its designers allowed room for growth, and made the houses of one general design — some of brick, some of stone, some,
Page 126 - spikes or the tracks drew under the constant vibration of the traffic, and the metals opened out. No one is hanged for these little affairs. We began to climb hills, and then we stopped—at night in darkness, while men threw sand under the wheels and crowbarred the track and then " guessed