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...and lack of incident. As much as my feelings were taken up by my own intelligence from home, I could not but be amused by a scene in the stee... ...nts of the press, and a greater multitude eager for newspapers and verbal intelligence from the great Atlantic and European world. Through this cr... ...ike one of our stifling Irish Catholic churches in Boston or New York, with intelligence in so small a proportion to the number of faces. During the... ... and very hot, and the ground perfectly dry; windmills, to raise water for artificial irrigation of small patches, seen all over the landscape, wh... ...wo officers of the Alert, long ago shipmasters, agreed with him that, for intelligence, knowledge of duty and will- ingness to perform it, pride ...

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... worked up- stairs at the heavy tasks of truss-making and the finishing of artificial limbs. He waited for Mr. Pappleworth, not knowing what to do, si... ... got beyond the second page. He read a great deal, and had a quick, active intelligence. She could un- derstand nothing but love-making and chatter. H... ...sed him very much. Yet to Annie he said: “Such rot! there isn’t a grain of intelligence in it. No- body with more gumption than a grasshopper could go... ...“I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me,” she said. “That’s a stiff, artificial notion,” he said. “They don’t die any quicker in water than on t...

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...le, and began to play in earnest. There was a cough behind him that had an artificial, dis- creet ring to it. He went on playing without turning round... ...elf reinstated and prop- erly demobilised. They’ll see you are a person of intelligence. They can’t treat you as they would anybody.” “I must be, as y...