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We are a purely commercial people; money is absolutely to the fore; and business, which is the means of getting the most money, is the American ideal. If you like, you may call it the American fetish; I don't mind calling it so myself. The fact that business is our ideal, or our fetish, will account for the popular faith in business men, who form its priesthood, its hierarchy.
He was supposed to be absolutely merciless, as hard as a nether millstone, a judge who could put on the black cap without a feeling of inward disgust. But it may be surmised that they who said so knew nothing of him, for he was a man not apt to betray the secrets of his inner life. He was noted for his reverence for a jury, and for his silence on the bench.
He was aware, of course, that the property he had been managing had been purchased originally partly with her fortune and partly out of her husband's pocket, and that half of it was therefore hers and half of it the property of Marcus and himself; but that by her husband's will the control and management were hers absolutely.
Or has he only dared to tell you other things?" A joyous little sob caught in her throat. "His lips have told me nothing, Ursula. His eyes and my heart have told me all." "And without knowing these things you love him, Zura?" "Love him," she echoed softly. "Right or wrong, I love him absolutely!" I looked at the girl in amazed wonder.
If any question of politics I mean policy arises, I leave it absolutely to you. I'm going back to bed. Can't you stop smoking that rotten cigar?" Aladdin laughed aloud, and Mr. Blankinship endeavored to smile. "Somewhere," he said, "in this transcendentally beautiful continent, Aladdin, there may be some one that feels worse than I do, but I doubt it." He turned to go. "Won't Mr.
The count had told me her name, and where she lived, but laughed at my love, and absolutely refused to give me leave to go in search of her, so I was forced to run away from the castle by night. I soon reached the little town where the maiden dwelt; but there fresh difficulties awaited me.
It must be remembered, moreover, that the subjects and methods of study, in language, mathematics, and abstract ideas of all kinds, were entirely foreign to the untutored Indian mind. It is difficult to study in a foreign language even when the subject of study is familiar; the Indian student is expected to master subjects absolutely unknown to him in his own life.
She looked at him earnestly. He had taken her hand to steady her, for she was swaying a little. "Are you sure," she said, grasping his arm. "Are you quite sure?" "Absolutely certain. You know I am always right, do you not?" "Yes, oh, yes; you have always been true to me. You " Here her senses came back with a rush.
The exclamation was low, and absolutely incredulous. "You heard me. Aren't you perfectly well fitted to teach theory and harmony laws, and the principles of composition, to a lot of ignoramuses, at one hundred roubles a month?" Before Nicholas had finished, Ivan jumped to his feet and began to pace up and down the attic-room.
"You mean to say that he would actually have murdered you if Vera had not interfered in that providential manner? I suppose I must accept your assurance that she is absolutely safe, though I can't help feeling that she has exaggerated her own position. I am terribly anxious about her. I have an idea which I should like to carry out.
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