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Pollyanna (Book)
Eleanor H. Porter
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R854
Discovery Miles 8 540
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The goal for this volume is to provide an up-to-date review of the
discriminative stimulus properties of major psychoactive drug
classes with an emphasis on how this paradigm enhances our
understanding of these drugs and how these findings translate from
animals to humans. The drug discrimination paradigm applies to both
drugs of abuse and drugs for treating mental illnesses, and
research from these studies has provided immense translational
value for learning about the mechanisms responsible for drug
effects in humans.
Miss Polly Harrington entered her kitchen a little hurriedly this
June morning. Miss Polly did not usually make hurried movements;
she specially prided herself on her repose of manner. But to-day
she was hurrying-actually hurrying. Nancy, washing dishes at the
sink, looked up in surprise. Nancy had been working in Miss Polly's
kitchen only two months, but already she knew that her mistress did
not usually hurry.
Della Wetherby tripped up the somewhat imposing steps of her
sister's Commonwealth Avenue home and pressed an energetic finger
against the electric-bell button. From the tip of her wing-trimmed
hat to the toe of her low-heeled shoe she radiated health,
capability, and alert decision. Even her voice, as she greeted the
maid that opened the door, vibrated with the joy of living. "Good
morning, Mary. Is my sister in?" "Y-yes, ma'am, Mrs. Carew is in,"
hesitated the girl; "but-she gave orders she'd see no one." "Did
she? Well, I'm no one," smiled Miss Wetherby, "so she'll see me.
Don't worry-I'll take the blame," she nodded, in answer to the
frightened remonstrance in the girl's eyes. "Where is she-in her
sitting-room?" "Y-yes, ma'am; but-that is, she said-" Miss
Wetherby, however, was already halfway up the broad stairway; and,
with a despairing backward glance, the maid turned away.
There was a thoughtful frown on the face of the man who was the
possessor of twenty million dollars. He was a tall, spare man, with
a fringe of reddish-brown hair encircling a bald spot. His blue
eyes, fixed just now in a steady gaze upon a row of ponderous law
books across the room, were friendly and benevolent in direct
contradiction to the bulldog, never-let-go fighting qualities of
the square jaw below the firm, rather thin lips. The lawyer, a
youthfully alert man of sixty years, trimly gray as to garb, hair,
and mustache, sat idly watching him, yet with eyes that looked so
intently that they seemed to listen. For fully five minutes the two
men had been pulling at their cigars in silence when the
millionaire spoke. "Ned, what am I going to do with my money?" Into
the lawyer's listening eyes flashed, for a moment, the keenly
scrutinizing glance usually reserved for the witness on the other
side. Then quietly came the answer. "Spend it yourself, I hope-for
some years to come, Stanley."
Calderwell had met Mr. M. J. Arkwright in London through a common
friend; since then they had tramped half over Europe together in a
comradeship that was as delightful as it was unusual. As Calderwell
put it in a letter to his sister, Belle: ''We smoke the same cigar
and drink the same tea (he's just as much of an old woman on that
subject as I am ), and we agree beautifully on all necessary points
of living, from tipping to late sleeping in the morning; while as
for politics and religion-we disagree in those just enough to lend
spice to an otherwise tame existence.'' Farther along in this same
letter Calderwell touched upon his new friend again.
''I, Bertram, take thee, Billy, '' chanted the white-robed
clergyman. '''I, Bertram, take thee, Billy, ' ''echoed the tall
young ridegroom, his eyes gravely tender. ''To my wedded wife.''
'''To my wedded wife.''' The bridegroom's voice shook a little.
''To have and to hold from this day forward.'' ''To have and to
hold from this day forward.'' Now the young voice rang with
triumph. It had grown strong and steady. ''For better for worse.''
''For better for worse.'' ''For richer for poorer, '' droned the
clergyman, with the weariness of uncounted repetitions.
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