In any trouble, such as was this about the necklace, there would come over his face a look of weakness which betrayed the want of real inner strength.

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Middlesex may bid a long farewell to the County Championship. Their team came a dreadful cropper early on in the week, and their crack bowlers, Trott and Roche (foreign imports both), never mention J. T. Hearne, who didn’t take a solitary wicket, were powerless to prevent a severe defeat at the hands of Messrs. Fry, Ranjit, Bland, and Co., of Sussex.[…]But the Sussexers owe their success chiefly to Tate and Cyril Bland — the latter a fast bowler, who, according to that fine writer on cricket as well as great exponent of the game—I allude to C. B. Fry—is “capable of work equal in merit to that of such great bowlers as Richardson and Mold.”

Most organic species are capable of developing biotic abilities, though there are risks involved. Biotics are the result of in-utero exposure to element zero. This usually causes fatal cancers in the victim, but in rare cases it coalesces into nodules within the fetus's developing nervous system.