They would talk patronizingly to Link, and perhaps even try to coax him into selling Chum. The thought decided Ferris. "I'm goin' home!" he said roughly. "You're coming with me," contradicted the man in that same quiet voice, but slipping his muscular arm into Link's. With his other hand he shifted the lapel of his coat, displaying a police badge on its reverse. Still avoiding any outward appearance of force, he turned about, with his arm locked in Ferris's and started toward the clubhouse. "Here!" expostulated poor Link, with all a true mountaineer's horror of the police. "What's all this?英文原著 · 《His Dog》
"If you really wanted him put out of the way so bad--" began Link, when he could trust himself to speak. He got no further. Dorcas Chatham turned on him in genuine savageness. The big eyes were no longer grave and patronizing. The air of aloofness had fallen from the girl like a discarded garment. "Link!" she blazed. "Link Ferris! If you ever dare speak about getting rid of--of MY dog,--I'll--I'll never speak to you again, as long as--as long as we're married!"
THE END英文原著 · 《His Dog》
To become adapted to their environment animals are transformers of energy. This adaptation to environment is made by means of a system of organs evolved for the purpose of converting potential energy into heat and motion. The principal organs and tissues of this system are the brain, the adrenals, the thyroid, the muscles, and the liver. Each is a vital link, each plays its particular role, and one cannot compensate for the other. A change in any link of the kinetic chain modifies proportionately the entire kinetic system which is no stronger than its weakest link.英文原著 · 《The Origin and Nature of Emotions》
She heard the ceaseless buzzing of the flies. How pale his face had been, how weak his body! He had returned to the weakness of a child. He had depended upon her. That fact, that he had for a time utterly depended upon her, had forged a new link in their friendship, the strongest link of all. At least she had felt it to be so. For she was very much of a woman, and full of a secret motherliness. But perhaps he had forgotten all that.英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
But the dog did not flinch. He seemed to understand that Ferris meant kindly, for he moved his magnificent head far enough to lick the man's hand softly and in gratitude. The caress had an odd effect on the loveless Ferris. It was the first voluntary mark of affection he had encountered for longer than he liked to remember. It set old memories to working. The Ferris farm, since Link's birth, had been perhaps the only home in all that wild region which did not boast a dog of some kind. Link's father had had an inborn hatred of dogs. He would not allow one on the place.英文原著 · 《His Dog》
From the fold Link as usual went to the woodlot where his five head of lean milch cattle were at graze. Three of the cows were waiting at the bars for him, but one heifer and a new-dry Holstein were hidden somewhere in the recesses of the second-growth timber. The afternoon was hot; it had been a hot day. Link was tired. He dreaded the labor of exploring ten acres of undergrowth for his two missing cattle. An inspiration came to him. Pointing to the three stolidly waiting cows at the bars he waved his arm in the general direction of the lot and called on Chum. "Go find 'em!英文原著 · 《His Dog》
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and you are my weakest link!美剧 · 《Shameless》