, but darkly hinted at the little rift within the lute, and somehow after that night the glamour seemed to have departed from this honeymoon pair, and the fair seeming was regarded with suspicion.
As regards the matter of distance, it took an easy two minutes to cover the space between the front doors of the two houses, and there seemed an endless number of reasons why the members of the different families should fly round to consult each other a dozen times a day. Darsie and Lavender, Vi and plain Hannah attended the same High School; the Garnett boys and John Vernon the same Royal Institute, but the fact that they walked to and from school together, and spent the intervening hours in the same class-rooms, by no means mitigated the necessity of meeting again during luncheon and tea hours. In holiday times the necessity naturally increased, and bells pealed incessantly in response to tugs from youthful hands.
Then came the time of the great servants' strike. That bell was a perfect nuisance; rin
Another characteristic list of words might be made, compounded with the monosyllable tang (which in Sakai and Semang means "hand"), and conveying an idea of seizing or holding.
Tang-an the hand. Tang-kap to seize. Tang-kei a stalk. Tang-gong to support. Tang-gal to drop off (having left hold). Tong-kat a walking-stick, &c.
The history of the Malay people is to be discovered in the language itself, for no authentic records of pre-Muhammadan times exist. Just as an insight into the early history of our own nation may be obtained by analysing the component parts of the English tongue, and assigning to each of the languages which have contributed to make it what it is their due proportion of influence, so, by resolving the Malay language into its separate elements, of which native, Sanskrit, and Arabic are the chief, and by examining the words contributed by each, it is possible to follow with some approach to historical
g, and the two mates having their hands full in driving forward the work of finishing the lading, so that the hatches might be on and things in some sort of order before the crew should be needed to make sail.
The decks everywhere were littered with the stuff put aboard from the lighter that left the brig just before I reached her, and the huddle and confusion showed that the transfer must have been made in a tearing hurry. Many of the boxes gave no hint of what was inside of them; but a good deal of the stuff--as the pigs of lead and cans of powder, the many five-gallon kegs of spirits, the boxes of fixed ammunition, the cases of arms, and so on--evidently was regular West Coast "trade." And all of it was jumbled together just as it had been tumbled aboard.
I was surprised by our starting with the brig in such a mess--until it occurred to me that the captain had no choice in the matter if he wanted to save the tide. Very likely the tide did enter into his calculations; but I was led to believe
aused him to regain hiscity, if in his house there is means for his ransom, he shall ransom hisown self; if in his house there is no means for his ransom, he shall beransomed from the temple of his city; if in the temple of his city thereis not means for his ransom, the palace shall ransom him. His field, hisgarden, and his house shall not be given for his ransom.
section 33. If either a governor or a magistrate has taken to himselfthe men of the levy, or has accepted and sent on the king's errand ahired substitute, that governor or magistrate shall be put to death.
section 34. If either a governor or a magistrate has taken to himselfthe property of a ganger, has plundered a ganger, has given a ganger tohire, has stolen from a ganger in a judgement by high-handedness, hastaken to himself the gift the king has given the ganger, that governor ormagistrate shall be put to death.
section 35. If a man has bought the cattle or sheep which the king hasgiven to the ganger from the hand of the
--just enough to have made Connery believe, at first, that probably he had seen the man meeting some passenger at the station.
"You are--" Connery ventured more casually.
"In private employ; yes, sir," the man cut off quickly. Then Connery knew him; it was when Gabriel Warden traveled on Connery's train that the conductor had seen this chauffeur; this was Patrick Corboy, who had driven Warden the night he was killed. But Connery, having won his point, knew better than to show it. "Waiting for a receipt from me?" he asked as if he had abandoned his curiosity.
The chauffeur nodded. Connery took a sheet of paper, wrote on it, sealed it in an envelope and handed it over; the chauffeur hastened back to his car and drove off. Connery, order in hand, stood at the door watching the car depart. He whistled softly to himself. Evidently his passenger was to be one of the great men in Eastern finance who had been brought West by Warden's death. As the car disappeared, Connery gazed off to the Sound.
ndition of human progress that a people shall be married to a single land; that they shall wander no more from one region to another, but remain fixed and faithful to their soil. Then, if the Earth-wife be fruitful, she will bear them children by hundreds and by thousands; and then calamity will come and teach them by torture to invent.
The Egyptians were islanders, cut off from the rest of the world by sand and sea. They were rooted in their valley; they lived entirely upon its fruits, and happily these fruits sometimes failed. Had they always been able to obtain enough to eat, they would have remained always in the semi-savage state.
It may appear strange that Egypt should have suffered from famine, for there was no country in the ancient world where food was so abundant and so cheap. Not only did the land produce enormous crops of corn; the ditches and hollows which were filled by the overflowing Nile supplied a harvest of wholesome and nourishing aquatic plants, and on the borders of the des
The practicabilityof every reform is determined absolutely and always by "thecircumstances of the case," and only those who put themselves intothe midst of affairs, either by action or by observation, can knownwhat those circumstances are or perceive what they signify. Nostatesman dreams of doing whatever he pleases; he knows that it doesnot follow that because a point of morals or of policy is obvious tohim it will be obvious to the nation, or even to his own friends;and it is the strength of a democratic polity that there are so manyminds to be consulted and brought to agreement, and that nothing canbe wisely done for which the thought, and a good deal more than thethought, of the country, its sentiment and its purpose, have notbeen prepared. Social reform is a matter of cooperation, and if itbe of a novel kind, requires an infinite deal of converting to bringthe efficient majority to believe in it and support it. Withouttheir agreement and support it is impossible.
, but darkly hinted at the little rift within the lute, and somehow after that night the glamour seemed to have departed from this honeymoon pair, and the fair seeming was regarded with suspicion.
As regards the matter of distance, it took an easy two minutes to cover the space between the front doors of the two houses, and there seemed an endless number of reasons why the members of the different families should fly round to consult each other a dozen times a day. Darsie and Lavender, Vi and plain Hannah attended the same High School; the Garnett boys and John Vernon the same Royal Institute, but the fact that they walked to and from school together, and spent the intervening hours in the same class-rooms, by no means mitigated the necessity of meeting again during luncheon and tea hours. In holiday times the necessity naturally increased, and bells pealed incessantly in response to tugs from youthful hands.
Then came the time of the great servants' strike. That bell was a perfect nuisance; rin
Another characteristic list of words might be made, compounded with the monosyllable tang (which in Sakai and Semang means "hand"), and conveying an idea of seizing or holding.
Tang-an the hand. Tang-kap to seize. Tang-kei a stalk. Tang-gong to support. Tang-gal to drop off (having left hold). Tong-kat a walking-stick, &c.
The history of the Malay people is to be discovered in the language itself, for no authentic records of pre-Muhammadan times exist. Just as an insight into the early history of our own nation may be obtained by analysing the component parts of the English tongue, and assigning to each of the languages which have contributed to make it what it is their due proportion of influence, so, by resolving the Malay language into its separate elements, of which native, Sanskrit, and Arabic are the chief, and by examining the words contributed by each, it is possible to follow with some approach to historical
g, and the two mates having their hands full in driving forward the work of finishing the lading, so that the hatches might be on and things in some sort of order before the crew should be needed to make sail.
The decks everywhere were littered with the stuff put aboard from the lighter that left the brig just before I reached her, and the huddle and confusion showed that the transfer must have been made in a tearing hurry. Many of the boxes gave no hint of what was inside of them; but a good deal of the stuff--as the pigs of lead and cans of powder, the many five-gallon kegs of spirits, the boxes of fixed ammunition, the cases of arms, and so on--evidently was regular West Coast "trade." And all of it was jumbled together just as it had been tumbled aboard.
I was surprised by our starting with the brig in such a mess--until it occurred to me that the captain had no choice in the matter if he wanted to save the tide. Very likely the tide did enter into his calculations; but I was led to believe
aused him to regain hiscity, if in his house there is means for his ransom, he shall ransom hisown self; if in his house there is no means for his ransom, he shall beransomed from the temple of his city; if in the temple of his city thereis not means for his ransom, the palace shall ransom him. His field, hisgarden, and his house shall not be given for his ransom.
section 33. If either a governor or a magistrate has taken to himselfthe men of the levy, or has accepted and sent on the king's errand ahired substitute, that governor or magistrate shall be put to death.
section 34. If either a governor or a magistrate has taken to himselfthe property of a ganger, has plundered a ganger, has given a ganger tohire, has stolen from a ganger in a judgement by high-handedness, hastaken to himself the gift the king has given the ganger, that governor ormagistrate shall be put to death.
section 35. If a man has bought the cattle or sheep which the king hasgiven to the ganger from the hand of the
--just enough to have made Connery believe, at first, that probably he had seen the man meeting some passenger at the station.
"You are--" Connery ventured more casually.
"In private employ; yes, sir," the man cut off quickly. Then Connery knew him; it was when Gabriel Warden traveled on Connery's train that the conductor had seen this chauffeur; this was Patrick Corboy, who had driven Warden the night he was killed. But Connery, having won his point, knew better than to show it. "Waiting for a receipt from me?" he asked as if he had abandoned his curiosity.
The chauffeur nodded. Connery took a sheet of paper, wrote on it, sealed it in an envelope and handed it over; the chauffeur hastened back to his car and drove off. Connery, order in hand, stood at the door watching the car depart. He whistled softly to himself. Evidently his passenger was to be one of the great men in Eastern finance who had been brought West by Warden's death. As the car disappeared, Connery gazed off to the Sound.
ndition of human progress that a people shall be married to a single land; that they shall wander no more from one region to another, but remain fixed and faithful to their soil. Then, if the Earth-wife be fruitful, she will bear them children by hundreds and by thousands; and then calamity will come and teach them by torture to invent.
The Egyptians were islanders, cut off from the rest of the world by sand and sea. They were rooted in their valley; they lived entirely upon its fruits, and happily these fruits sometimes failed. Had they always been able to obtain enough to eat, they would have remained always in the semi-savage state.
It may appear strange that Egypt should have suffered from famine, for there was no country in the ancient world where food was so abundant and so cheap. Not only did the land produce enormous crops of corn; the ditches and hollows which were filled by the overflowing Nile supplied a harvest of wholesome and nourishing aquatic plants, and on the borders of the des
The practicabilityof every reform is determined absolutely and always by "thecircumstances of the case," and only those who put themselves intothe midst of affairs, either by action or by observation, can knownwhat those circumstances are or perceive what they signify. Nostatesman dreams of doing whatever he pleases; he knows that it doesnot follow that because a point of morals or of policy is obvious tohim it will be obvious to the nation, or even to his own friends;and it is the strength of a democratic polity that there are so manyminds to be consulted and brought to agreement, and that nothing canbe wisely done for which the thought, and a good deal more than thethought, of the country, its sentiment and its purpose, have notbeen prepared. Social reform is a matter of cooperation, and if itbe of a novel kind, requires an infinite deal of converting to bringthe efficient majority to believe in it and support it. Withouttheir agreement and support it is impossible.