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SpokeA spoke is one of some number of rods radiating from the center of a wheel (the hub where the axle connects), connecting the hub with the round traction surface.Spokes can be made of wood or metal. Some types of wheel have removable spokes which can be replaced individually if they break or bend. These include bicycle and wheelchair wheels. (incidentally... old bent bicycle spokes are sometimes kept in toolkits; they are useful for unblocking plugs etc.) I did not have much else to offer,
world."
"It is so very wrong, Mr. Harrison," put in the other, quickly.
right and beautiful in life.html">life.html">life; and it is all so selfish and wicked!"
had he been there to hear them; but Helen was too much in earnest to
but one never meets anyone else that does, and it is so easy to live
seem a very poor kind of a person indeed."
The man.html">man paused, and Helen sat gazing at him with a worried look upon
she stopped; and after a long silence, Mr. Harrison took up the
ask for your regard,--that I have really nothing fit to offer you.
worship.html">worship, really worship, such a woman as you; and I could do
if it meant the changing of all my ways of life. Do you not suppose
let me be devoted to you?"
There was a look in Mr. Harrison's eyes as he gazed at her just then
was. She answered very gently. "Mr. Harrison," she said, "it would
I could never marry you; I do not love.html">love you."
"And you do not think.html">think," asked the other, "that you could ever come
would not ever think of me so."
"It is very easy to say that," the man answered, pleadingly, "but
with the thought.html">thought.html">thought of you. Why should I go on with the life I have
that makes me no better and no happier? I thought of you as a new
easily change his feelings. For I really loved you, and I do love
and the tone of voice in which he spoke those words moved her very
she would not have thought she could ever do.
"Mr. Harrison," she said, "I cannot tell you how much it hurts me to
cruelly unfeeling I have been, and how much I have wronged. All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
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