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If the intuitive imagination is joined to the inductive spirit we have the talent for observation of the naturalist, the psychologist, the pedagogue, the man of affairs.If the intuitive imagination is combined with the deductive spirit we have the analytical talent of the systematic naturalist, of the geometrician. In ...
In literature this altogether foreign mode of creative activity has found its most complete expression among the _Parnassiens_ and their congeners, whose creed is summed up in the formula, faultless form and impassiveness. Theophile Gautier claims that "a poet, no matter what may be said of him, is a _workman_; it is n...
(1) It employs neither the clear-cut, concrete, reality-penetrated images of the plastic imagination, nor the semi-schematic representations of the rational imagination, but those midway in that ascending and descending scale extending from perception to conception. This determination, however, is insufficient, and we ...
Thus, there is a complete antithesis between the imagination that has created the clear-cut and definite polytheism of the Greeks and that whence have issued those fluctuating divinities that allow the presentation of the future doctrine of _Maya_, of universal illusion--another more refined form of the diffluent imagi...
(1) Numerical imagination has nowhere been more exuberant than among the peoples of the Orient. They have played with number with magnificent audacity and prodigality. Chaldean cosmogony relates that _Oannes_, the Fish-god, devoted 259,200 years to the education of mankind, then came a period of 432,000 years taken up ...
The materials necessary for this form of imaginative construction are gathered slowly. Many centuries passed between the early ages when man's voice and the simple instruments imitating it translated simple emotions, to the period when the efforts of antiquity and of the middle ages finally furnished the musical imagin...
[87] Let us cite merely the case of Balzac who, says one of his biographers, "was always odd." He buys a property, in order to start a dairy there with "the best cows in the world," from which he expects to receive a net income of 3,000 francs. In addition, high-grade vegetable gardens, same income; vineyard, with Mala...
(1) An external character: the manner of writing and of speaking, the mode of expression, whatever it is. "The dominant style among mystics," says von Hartmann, "is metaphorical in the extreme--now flat and ordinary, more often turgid and emphatic. Excess of imagination betrays itself there, ordinarily, in the thought ...
The middle ages--a period of lively imagination and slight rational culture--overflowed in this direction. "Many thought that on this earth everything is a sign, a figure, and that the visible is worth nothing except insofar as it covers up the invisible." Plants, animals--there is nothing that does not become subject ...
It is quite generally recognized that imagination is indispensable in all sciences; that without it we could only copy, repeat, imitate; that it is a stimulus driving us onward and launching us into the unknown. If there does exist a very widespread prejudice to the contrary--if many hold that scientific culture thrott...
Lastly, there is the hypothesis regarded as the truth itself--one that is accompanied by a complete, absolute, belief. But daily observation and history show us that in the realm of embryonic and ill-proven sciences this disposition is more flourishing than anywhere else. _The less proof there is, the more we believe._...
(2) In the experimental sciences for inventing methods of research or of control--whence its analogy, above mentioned, to the practical imagination. Furthermore, the reciprocal influence of these two forms of imagination is a matter of common observation: a scientific discovery permits the invention of new instruments;...
[112] For further information we refer to the _Logique de l'hypothese_, by E. Naville, from which are borrowed most of the facts here given.[113] This much-criticised defect has been only partially overcome in our methods of education through "object" lessons, and, if we may call them so, evolutionary methods, showing ...
(2) The abuse of reasoning by analogy. This great artisan of the imagination is satisfied with likenesses so vague and agreements so strange, that it dares everything. Resemblance is no longer a quality of things imposed on the mind, but an hypothesis of the mind imposed on things. Astrology groups into "constellations...
I term general characters those that the mechanical imagination possesses in common with the best known, least questioned forms of the constructive imagination. In order to be convinced that, so far as concerns these characters it does not differ from the rest, let us take, for the sake of comparison, esthetic imaginat...
(1) Human forces, the only ones available during the "state of nature" and the savage state. Before all else, man created weapons: the most circumscribed primitive races have invented engines for attack and defense--of wood, bone, stone, as they were able. Then the weapon became a tool by special adaptation:--the battl...
Thus, at bottom, there is an identity of nature between the constructive imagination of the mechanic and that of the artist: the difference is only in the end, the means, and the conditions. The formula, _Ars homo additus naturae_, has been too often restricted to esthetics--it should comprehend everything artificial. ...
But all these facts teach us nothing concerning its psychological nature. Intuition presupposes acquired experience of a special nature that gives the judgment its validity and turns it in a particular direction. Nevertheless, this accumulated knowledge of itself gives no evidence as to the future. Now, every intuition...
It is a well-known law of the emotional life that what is at first sought as a means may become an end and be desired for itself. A very sensual passion may at length undergo a sort of idealization; people study a science at first because it is useful, and later because of its fascination; and we may desire money in or...
Between the various types of imagination hitherto studied we have shown great differences as regards their external conditions. While the so-called forms of pure imagination, whence esthetic, mythic, religious, mystic creations arise, can realize themselves by submitting to material conditions that are simple and not v...
At the beginning of civilizations we meet semi-historic, semi-legendary persons--Manu, Zoroaster, Moses, Confucius, etc., who were inventors or reformers in the social and moral spheres. That a part of the inventions attributed to them must be credited to predecessors or successors is probable; but the invention, no ma...
With practical inventors and reformers the ideal falls--not that they sacrifice it for their personal interests, but because they have a comprehension of possibilities. The imaginative construction must be corrected, narrowed, mutilated, if it is to enter into the narrow frame of the conditions of existence, until it b...
Every want, tendency or desire may, then, become creative, by itself or associated with others, and into these final elements it is that analysis must resolve "creative spontaneity." This vague expression corresponds to a _sum_, not to a special property.[147] Every invention, then, has a _motor_ origin; _the ultimate ...
The explanation of the various phases of this development is reducible to a well-known psychologic law--the natural antagonism between sensation and image, between phenomena of peripheral origin and phenomena of central origin; or, in a more general form, between the outer and inner life. I shall not dwell long on this...
Imagination in the insane would deserve a special study, that would be lengthy, because there is no form of imagination that insanity has not adopted. In no period have insane creations been lacking in the practical, religious, or mystic life, in poetry, the fine arts, and in the sciences; in industrial, commercial, me...
I. Mystic inspiration, in a passive form, in Jacob Boehme (_Aurora_): "I declare before God that I do not myself know how the thing arises within me, without the participation of my will. I do not even know that which I must write. If I write, it is because the Spirit moves me and communicates to me a great, wonderful ...
I do not intend to enumerate all the varieties of the psychological theory. The most systematic, that of Myers, accepted by Delboef and others, is full of a biological mysticism all its own. Here it is in substance: In every one of us there is a conscious self adapted to the needs of life, and potential selves constitu...
In the third case, creative imagination, the ideal, a sketched construction, is the equivalent of the ovum; but it is evident that the plasticity of the creative imagination is much greater than that of instinct. The imagination may radiate in several very different ways, and the plan of the invention, as we have seen,...
"I may add here, _by association_ of ideas. The doctor had seen through me, and had with fine insight perceived _why_ I had _heard_ the end of the psalm. The incident made a great impression on me, all the more as ever since the age of eight my memory testifies to a like hallucination, but of sight in place of hearing....
Boehme, Jacob, 335.Bonnal, 298 n.Borgia, Lucretia, 139.Bossuet, 225.Boulogne, De, 283.Bourdeau, L., 272.Brain- development and abstraction, 100; regions, Development of, 67; weights, 66.Bramwell, 343.Breguet, 277.Brown-Sequard, 77.Buddha, Life of, 301.Buffon, 52, 73.Byron, 145.Cabalists, 234.Cabalistic mysticism, 2...
Imagination, and abulia, 11; and foresight, 284; anthropocentric, 10; basis of the cosmic process, 75; Commercial, 281; complete in animals, 95; condensed in common objects, 276; Conditions of, 44; Development of, 167 ff.; Diffluent, 196 ff.; Esthetic, 264; fixed form, 318; in animals, 93; in ...
Play, 47, 97; Uses of, for man, 114.Plotinus, 234.Poe, 39, 206, 324.Poet, a workman, 190.Poetical imagination, general characters, 267; Inspiration in, 268; special characters, 270.Poetical invention, Stages of, 266.Polyideism, 87.Polynomy, 120.Poncelet, 143.Positive minds, 318.Powers of nature, Exploitation of 2...
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E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net)THE CONVERT* * * * *Transcriber's note:Lists of Macmillan titles from this spot have been moved to the end of the text. Following the moved section, the reader will find a l...
'I should think so,' agreed the guest.'Yes; and it was glorious when Sara excaped to the top of the wardrobe.''To the w----' Miss Levering gasped.'Yes. We were having the most perfectly fascinating time----' Sara took up the tale.But Cecil suddenly sat bolt upright, his little face quite pink with excitement at recolle...
Other eyes turned that way as the servant announced 'Miss Levering.' It is seldom that in this particular stratum of London life anything so uncontrolled and uncontrollable as a 'sensation' is permitted to chequer the even distribution of subdued good humour that reigns so modestly in the drawing-rooms of the Tunbridge...
'"Why haven't they seen her before" comes next. Then the next time you and I meet in the country or find ourselves alone in a crush, you'll be saying, "What's her story? Why hasn't a woman like that married?" They all do! You don't believe me? Just wait! Freddy shall take you over, and----' Was Mrs. Freddy beaming at t...
'Dick Farnborough has been complaining that since he smashed his motor all existence has become disorganized. I always feel'--the hostess addressed herself to the minister and the pearls--'don't you, that one ought to stretch a point for people who have to go about in cabs?'As Haycroft began a disquisition on the chang...
In spite of her companion's affectation of a smiling quarrelsomeness, Vida unfolded her table-napkin with the air of one looking forward to her _tete-a-tete_ with the man who had brought her down. But Lord Borrodaile was a person most women liked talking to, and hardly had she begun to relish that combination in the ma...
'I don't know her name. I mean the woman who dares to sit quite silent and eat her dinner without looking like a lost soul.''I've been saying you could do that.'She shook her head. 'No, I've been engaged for the last hour in proving I haven't the courage. It's just come over me,' she said, her eyes in their turn making...
The sensitive face of the woman in the bed--even now with something of the peace of sleep still shadowing its brilliancy--gave by contrast an impression of vividness and eager sympathies. The mistress, too, looked younger than her years. She did not seem to wonder at the dull presence that seemed to be held there, pris...
'And so you're ready to leave me after all these years?''No, miss, I'm not to say "ready," but I think I'll have to go.''My poor old Wark'--the lady leaned over the tray--'I could almost think you are in love with this man you've only heard about!''No, miss, I'm not to say in love.''I believe you are! For what other re...
He stopped in the act of thrusting the paper in his pocket and shook it.'What do you call this?''That is my _Times_,' she said.'_Your_ _Times_?''I ordered an extra copy, because you dislike so to have yours looked at till you've finished with it.''Dreadful hardship _that_ is!' he said, glancing round, and seeing his ow...
'It isn't only my fastidiousness, as you call it, that is offended,' Vida retorted. 'I am penetrated by the hopelessness of what we're doing. It salves my conscience, or _yours_----' Hurriedly she added, '----that's not what you mean to do it for, I _know_, dear--and you're an angel and I'm a mere cumberer of the earth...
Seeing Ulland House for the first time on a fine afternoon in early May against the jubilant green of its woodland hillside, the beholder, a little dazzled in that first instant by the warmth of colour burning in the ancient brick, might adapt the old dean's line and call the coral-tinted structure rambling down the hi...
A stranger might imagine that the reason for Lady Sophia's presence in the party was that she, by common consent, played a capital game of golf--'for a woman.' That fact, however, was rather against her. For people who can play the beguiling game, _want_ to play it--and want to play it not merely now and then out of pu...
'What fun!' Lady Sophia's long face had brightened.'May I stay over till the next train?' Farnborough was whispering to Lady John as he went round to her on the pretext of more cream. 'Thank you--then I won't go till the six forty-two.''I didn't know,' Lady Sophia was observing in her somewhat crude way, 'that you knew...
'Mrs. Freddy crestfallen, what about?' said Farnborough. But he was much preoccupied at that moment in supplying Lady Sophia with bits of toast the exact size for balancing on the Bedlington's nose. For the benefit of his end of the table Paul Filey had begun to describe the new one-man show of caricatures of famous pe...
'It's flattery to call them women. They're sexless monstrosities,' said Paul Filey.'You know some of them?' Vida raised her head.'_I?_' Filey's face was nothing less than aghast at the mere suggestion.'But you've seen them----?''Heaven forbid!''But I suppose you've gone and listened to them haranguing the crowds.''Now ...
'Yes, a sort of plea for the aesthetic basis of society! It's the only cure for the horrors of modern civilization--for the very thing we were talking about at tea! What is it but a loss of the sense of beauty that's to blame?' Elbows on knees, he leaned so far forward that he could see both faces, and yet his own betr...
'No, not in a shop.' She stopped and leaned against a tree. 'In the street. It was a middle-aged workman. When I caught sight of his back and saw his worn clothes--the coat went up in the middle, and had that despairing sag on both sides--it crossed my mind, here's another of those miserable, unemployed wastrels obstru...
Of course it was absolutely essential to disguise the object of the outing from Mr. Fox-Moore. Not merely because with the full weight of his authority he would most assuredly have forbidden it, but because of a nervous prefiguring on his wife's part of the particular things he would say, and the particular way he woul...
They had penetrated the fringe of a gathering composed largely of weedy youths and wastrel old men. A few there were who looked like decent artizans, but more who bore the unmistakable aspect of the beery out-of-work. Among the strangely few women, were two or three girls of the domestic servant or Strand Restaurant ca...
'I hope you _do_ get paid for so disagreeable a job--forgive my saying so,' said Vida.'Paid? Oh, no!' she said cheerfully. 'I'm too hard at work all week to help much. And I can't speak, so I do this. Leaflets! Citizenship----''Is that pinched-looking creature at the end,'--Mrs. Fox-Moore detained the pamphlet-seller t...
The next speaker was a working woman, the significance of whose appearance in that place and in that company was so little apprehended by the two ladies in the crowd that they agreed in laughingly commiserating the chairman for not having more of her own kind to back her up in her absurd contention. Though the second s...
'Oh, dear! It's the one with the wild black hair and the awful "picture hat"!' But they stared for a few moments as if, in despite of themselves, fascinated by this lady be-feathered, be-crimped, and be-ringed, wearing her huge hat cocked over one ear with a defiant coquetry above a would-be conquering smile. The unerr...
'Don't you see,' she appealed to them as equals--'don't you see that in your improvement of the world you men have taken women's business out of her home? In the old days there was work and responsibility enough for woman without going outside her own gate. The women were the bakers and brewers, the soap and candle-mak...
Pursuing this programme, what more natural than that those two chance pedestrians should be arrested by an apparition on their way, of a flaming banner bearing, along with a demand for the vote, an outrageous charge against a distinguished public servant--'a pity the misguided creatures didn't know him, just a little!'...
They exhibited, too, what was perhaps even stranger--an utter absence of any flaunting of courage or the smallest show of defiance. What was this armour that looked like mere indifference? It couldn't be that those quiet-looking young girls _were_ indifferent to the ordeal of standing up there before a crowd of jeering...
'That gentleman seems to think it's a new madness that we've recently invented.' The child seemed in her loneliness to reach out for companioning. She spoke of 'our friend John Stuart Mill.''Oo's Mill?''That great Liberal wrote in 1867----' But Mill and she were drowned together. She waited a moment for the flood of de...
'What do you do with your power? You throw it away. You submit to being taxed and to _our_ being taxed to the tune of a hundred and twenty-seven millions, that a war may be carried on in South Africa--a war that most of you know nothing about and care nothing about--a war that some of us knew only too much about, and w...
'You're a disgryce!''I bet on little Blunt!''Boo!'Even in that portion of the crowd that did not relieve its feelings by either talking or shouting, there was observable the indefinable something that says, 'Now the real fun's going to begin.' You see the same sort of manifestation in the playhouse when the favourite c...
By name she held up to scorn the candidates who had given every reason for the general belief that they were indifferent, if not opposed, to Woman's Suffrage till the moment came for contesting a seat.'Then when they find us there (we hear it keeps them awake at night, thinking we always _will_ be there in future!)--wh...
'Don't you know that there are girls and women in this very city who are working early and late for rich men, and who are expected by those same employers to live on six shillings a week? Perhaps I'm wrong in saying the men expect the women to live on that. It may be they _know_ that no girl can--it may be the men know...
'The converted don't need to come. It's you who need to come!' Above roars of derision: 'You felt that or, of course, you wouldn't be here. Men are so reasonable! As to the women who write letters to the papers to say they're against the Suffrage, they are very ignorant, those ladies, or else it may be they write their...
'Now, down.' The pallid growth vanished. 'Those against the freedom of women.' Again hands, hands. Far too many to suit the promoters of the meeting. But Miss Claxton announced, 'The ayes are in the majority. The meeting is with us.''She can't even count!' The air was full of the taunting phrase--'Can't count!''Yes,' s...
'My grandfather makes me. He hates London. And his dreary old house on a horrible windy hill--he simply loves that!''And you don't love it _at all_. I see.' He seemed to be thinking out something.Compunction visited the face before him. 'I didn't mean to say I didn't love it _at all_. It's like those people you care to...
'Nobody remembers anybody else when that Miss Levering of theirs is to the fore. You began to say when--to talk about Scotland.'He had taken out his watch. 'I was wondering if the children were down yet. Shall we go and see?'Jean jumped up with alacrity.'Sh!' Mrs. Freddy held up a finger and silenced her little circle....
As though she had just recalled the circumstances, 'Oh, yes,' Vida said, 'I remember I thought at the time, in my modest way, it was nothing short of heroic of them to go asking audience of their arch opponent.''It didn't come off!' He wagged his strange head.'Oh,' she said innocently, 'I thought they insisted on beard...
'Isn't it just possible they realize they've waked up interest in the Woman Question so that it's advertised in every paper, and discussed under every roof, from Land's End to John-o'-Groats? Don't you think _they_ know there's been more said and written about it in these days since the scene than in the ten years befo...
'I'm not sure they haven't taken the only way.' She looked at her friend with a fresh appeal in her eyes. But his were wearing their new cold look. She seemed to nerve herself to meet some numbing danger of cowardice. 'The old rule used to be patience--with no matter what wrong. The new feeling is: shame on any one who...
'You can't either of you go anywhere,' said Mrs. Freddy, appearing through the balcony window, 'till you've seen the children's pictures.' Vida's eye had once more fallen on the reproduction of one of the Cretan frescoes with a sudden intensification of interest.'What is it?' Borrodaile asked, looking over her shoulder...
'I heard you speak the other day as I told you in my note. But all the same I came away with several unanswered questions--questions that I wanted to put to you quietly. As I wrote you, I am not what _you_ would call a convert. I've only got as far as the inquiry stage.'Miss Claxton waited.'Still, if I take up your tim...
'You couldn't think it would save you from arrest.''No, not from arrest.' The woman's mouth hardened.'I know'--Miss Levering bridged the embarrassment of the pause--'I know there must be some rational explanation.'But if there were it was not forthcoming.'So you see your most indefensible and even futile-appearing acti...
'Our women are wonderful!' she lifted her tired head. 'I knew they'd never had a chance to show what they were, but there are some things---- No! I didn't think women had it in them.'She had got up and was standing now by the door, her limp gown clinging round her, her weather-beaten Tam on one side. But in the confide...
There was another rush and a yell, and Vida fled. When next she turned to look, it was to see two women making a sudden dash for liberty. They had escaped through the rowdy ranks, and they tore across the street, running for their lives and calling for help as they ran.Vida, a shade or two paler, stood transfixed. What...
'I don't know what that discontented creature, her sister, means by saying Vida is so unsympathetic about charity work.'Neither could Lady John's neighbour, the Bishop, understand Mrs. Fox-Moore's reproach. Had not his young kinswoman's charity concerts helped to rebuild the chantry?'Such a _nice creature_!' was Lord J...
* * * * *The next evening he came up to her at a party to ask why she had absented herself from a dinner the night before where he expected to find her.'Oh, I telephoned in the morning they weren't to expect me.''What were you doing, I should like to know?''No, you wouldn't like to know. But you...
'I can only say I've seen the sort of thing you mean in our world, where a good many women have only themselves to think about. I've looked in vain for those evil effects among the Suffrage women. It almost seems, on the contrary, as if there were something ennobling in working for a public cause.''Personally, I can't ...
A few minutes before the arrival of the Suffragettes, two nondescript young men, in a larky mood, appeared with the announcement that they'd seen 'one of them' at the top of Ranelagh Street.'That'll be the little 'un,' said the tramp to nobody. 'You don't ketch 'er bein' late!''Blunt! No--cheeky little devil,' remarked...
'She saw me beginning to write meeting notices on the stones. Of course, the people stopped and stared and laughed. But she, instead of getting shy, and pretending she hadn't anything to do with me, she took the chalk and wrote, "Votes for Women!" all over the pavement of Finsbury Circus.' Ernestine paused a moment tha...
Vida kept glancing at Borrodaile. As still he made no sign, 'Of course,' the lady whispered across the back of the bench, 'of course, you think she's an abomination, but----?' she paused for a handsome disavowal. Borrodaile looked at the eager face--Vida's, for Miss Blunt's was calm as a May morning. As he did not inst...
'Because I've got to see what she's made of.''But surely you see! She's awful!''Not half so bad as lots of men when they first try. If she weathers this, she'll be a speaker some day.'At last, having told her story through the interruptions--told it badly, brokenly, but to the end--having given proofs that lead-poisoni...
His answer to that was to turn not only a bored but a slightly injured face towards the woman who had, not without difficulty, balanced her rotund form on the bench at the far end. She might have been the comfortable wife of a rural grocer. She spoke the good English you may not infrequently hear among that class, but ...
'I was simply a woman whose standing in the community was all right, but I had nothing to recommend me to serious attention. I had nothing but the courage to look wrong in the face, and the conscience to report it honestly. When I told her certain things--things that are so stinging a disgrace that no decent person can...
'Well, open laughter is less dangerous laughter. It's even a guide; it helps us to find out things some of us wouldn't know otherwise. Lots of women used to be taken in by that talk about feminine influence and about men's immense respect for them! But any number of women have come to see that underneath that old mask ...
Only faint echoes of the din penetrated the spacious quiet of Ulland House. Although the frequent week-end party was there, the great hall on this particular morning presented a deserted appearance as the tall clock by the staircase chimed the hour of noon. The insistence of the ancient timepiece seemed to have set up ...
'Well, you know, I was disappointed,' he said judicially. 'Stonor's too content just to criticize, just to make his delicate pungent fun of the men who are grappling--very inadequately of course--still _grappling_ with the big questions. There's a carrying power'--he jumped to his feet again and faced an imaginary audi...
'It's very natural now that she should----''I only meant it was odd he should be _here_. Of course I'm not so silly----''It's all right, my child,' said her uncle, kindly. 'We naturally expect now that you'll begin to think like Geoffrey Stonor, and to feel like Geoffrey Stonor, and to talk like Geoffrey Stonor. And qu...
'Barlow!' Lord John caught up the name on his way out with Jean. 'You two still talking Barlow? How flattered the old beggar'd be! Did you hear'--he turned back and linked his arm in Greatorex's--'did you hear what Mrs. Heriot said about him? "So kind, so munificent--so _vulgar_, poor soul, we couldn't know him in Lond...
'The heads of schools thought me too young. There were people ready to listen to my singing. But the terms, they were too hard. Soon my money was gone. I began to pawn my trinkets. _They_ went.''And still no work?''No; but by that time I had some real education--an unpaid hotel bill, and not a shilling in the world. So...
'Or--the courage!' The girl put her hand up to her throat as if the sentence had caught there.'Even presumes to set _me_ right! Of course I don't _mind_ in the least, poor soul--but I feel I owe it to your dead mother to tell you about her, especially as you're old enough now to know something about life.''And since a ...
'It will be sufficiently embarrassing for the Cabinet Minister.'Stonor caught sight of Farnborough approaching and lowered his voice. He leaned his elbow on the end of the wide mantelpiece and gave his attention exclusively to Lord John, seeming to ignore even the pretty girl who still stood by her uncle with a hand sl...
'"Winning over the men" has been the woman's way since the Creation. Do you think the result should make us proud of our policy? Yes? Then go and walk in Piccadilly at midnight.'Lady John and Mrs. Heriot rose as one, while Miss Levering was adding--'No, I forgot----''Yes,' interposed Mrs. Heriot, with majesty, 'it is n...
'I'll just see Miss Levering off,' said Lady John, 'and then I'll come back and talk about it.'In the midst of the good-byeing that was going on over by the window, Jean suddenly exclaimed--'There mayn't be another train! Miss Levering!'But Stonor was standing in front of the girl barring the way. 'What if there isn't?...
'That's all this agitation's about.''Listen to me!' She came close to the edge of the plinth. 'If it wus only to use fur _our_ comfort, d'ye think many o' you workin' men would be found turnin' over their wyges to their wives? No! Wot's the reason thousands do--and the best and the soberest? Because the workin' man kno...
Stonor laughed. 'Oh, no! Our servants are all too superior.' He moved forward and touched a policeman on the shoulder. What was said was not audible--the policeman at first shook his head, then suddenly he turned round, looked sharply into the gentleman's face, and his whole manner changed. Obliging, genial, almost obs...
'Here's a man,' says Ernestine, 'asking, "If the women get full citizenship, and a war is declared, will the women fight?"''Haw! haw!''Yes.''Yes. Just tell us _that_!''Well'--she smiled--'you know some say the whole trouble about us is that we _do_ fight. But it's only hard necessity makes us do that. We don't want to ...
'But the Liberals, they'll promise you the earth and give you the whole o' nothin'.'There were roars of approval. Liberal stock had sunk rather low in Trafalgar Square.'Isn't it fun?' said Jean. 'Now aren't you glad I brought you?''Oh, this chap's all right!''We men 'ave seen it 'appen over and over. But the women can ...
The Socialist had left the platform with the threat that he was 'coming down now to attend to that microbe that's vitiating the air on my right, while a lady will say a few words to you--if she can myke 'erself 'eard.'He retired to a chorus of cheers and booing, while the chairman, more harassed than ever, it would see...