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...Herbert Spencer, and several other entertaining books in which I was conditioned last year. Sun keeps growing higher and higher. Finally at four o'clock by my watch several men appear in the yard. Among them an English tourist. I know him by his huge field-glasses and numberless portmanteaus. He gets into a carriole. While the men are harnessing the horse, I ask him for the correct time. He says, "Four o'clock," adding, "Nothing like starting off early." His words puzzle me. I ask him if it is morning or afternoon. He stares and replies, "Morning, of course...
...descendants numberless...
Between the acts we have time to wander about above and below the stage. Everywhere scenery. Here we narrowly escape a douche from "WATERFALL No. 2," and further on find shelter in "COTTAGE SCENE" under "LEFT WING," but soon run against "EGYPTIAN TOMB." Down stairs we find numberless trap-doors; then huge wheels and mysterious framework, which remind one of the palmy days of the Inquisition. But soon hammering calls us up stairs again; they are just finishing the tomb. The carpenter is nailing together the parts of the statue of Isis and calling for the missing head, while above...
...their health of mind, exercise their reasoning faculty and dare to think, in spite of the prefect, in spite of the cure. This class certainly does not constitute a majority, and, in any case, at the first occasion they abandon a position which offers few advantages in return for numberless annoyances and troubles constantly recurring. Indeed, I have not been speaking so much of instructors in particular as of the whole class, and especially of the deplorable system by which they are formed, or, rather, de-formed...
...that among the numberless crowd...