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...told funny stories (the widow at her husband's funeral who was so surprised at the preacher's eulogy that she sent her son up to look into the coffin to see if the dead man really was his "paw"); sad stories (the stepson who received a pair of brogans at Christmas while the other children got fine shoes and then complained that they hurt him not in the feet but in the heart). He treated the Senate to a long legendary account of Roland of Roncesvalles who "guarded the gate with drawn sword against all impostors...
...Count Enna of the Tyrol who lives in the schloss on the hill and there is an inn-keeper's daughter who lives in the valley below. The boy is no stiff-necked nobleman; he goes roaming the fields with the girl beside him; and in their lovemaking this pair is as pleasant to see as the Tyrolian Alps that surround them. Though for generations the youngest son of the house of Enna has served the Church, this boy in the feathered cap only laughs at family tradition and says he was never made to be a priest...
...while the prosecution rounded up some alienists of its own to swear with equal positiveness that Lieut. Massie was sane when Kahahawai was shot. Lawyer Darrow would not allow Dr. Joseph Catton and Paul Bowers, both also of California, to examine his client. But that did not prevent the pair from testifying after a perusal of the court record...
Anyway, who could smother a great wave of tenderness at the sight of blood on the dress of any comely girl? The final reform of the pair, result of mutual love, drives home the fact that, after all, none of us are bad, but just "poor blundering humans...
...officer in the French army) was destined for the role of a "chef d'industrie" in his father's cloth factory in Elbeuf. But an active business career did not interest him. He turned novelist and for a while he was known as the "humorous author of a pair of war books." That was hardly satisfactory, but "from the entanglement of passion we escape by action." Action: where was it? Mr. Maurois found it by accompanying his heroes on their every exploit. The argument is put clearly by Mr. Larg: "Put all your men of action in a row. Describe...