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"P'r'aps when we get back there won't be any cart; some one will have run away with it. They're rum uns here in London." "Why, you haven't left the cart alone, Ike," I cried. "That's a good one, that is," he exclaimed. "You haven't left the cart alone! Why, you and Shock did." "Yes," I said; "but " "There, come and let's see," he said gruffly.
But heaven would not suffer the deceit practised on her to be crowned with success, and discovered it to her timely enough to prevent her from giving too much way to that despair, which alone could have prevailed with her to yield to their importunities.
We have dwelt upon the Morocco question at some length, partly because it attracted a vast amount of interest during the years of preparation for the war; partly because it affords an extraordinarily good illustration of the difficulty of maintaining peaceable relations with Germany, and of the spirit in which Germany approached the delicate questions of inter-imperial relationships a spirit far removed indeed from that friendly willingness for compromise and co-operation by which alone the peace of the world could be maintained; and partly because it illustrates the crudity and brutality of the methods by which Germany endeavoured to separate her intended victims.
The income of the various charitable agencies of London alone was reported to be $43,000,000 in 1906. In the United States the first organization on the English model was the charity organization society of Buffalo, founded in 1877; Boston followed with a similar organization the next year.
He had lived the last three years so much alone, had been cut off so completely from his kind had lived so much alone. Yet to-night, at last, he would not be alone. Some one was coming to-night, some one whom he had not seen for a long time.
The White Lady, observing the surprise of the youth, immediately repeated "Mortal warp and mortal woof. Cannot brook this charmed roof; All that mortal art hath wrought, In our cell returns to nought. The molten gold returns to clay, The polish'd diamond melts away. All is alter'd, all is flown, Nought stands fast but truth alone.
Boisterous laughter sounded on my ear; some other masks had surrounded and seized me, exclaiming: "Look at the fine gentleman! He is out of his mind, dancing about the room like a madman, quite alone!" I opened my eyes and looked all around. What had become of my partner? Not a sign of her was to be seen, although this other room was likewise very large, just then not well filled with people.
Some few seconds later she told the gardener to see him safely off the premises, but he was nowhere to be found. A week later, Hamar turned up again at the Cottage, and, despite the vigilance of Gladys and the servants, caught John Martin alone.
He permitted her to detain him, and when she found herself alone in his presence, at first, with streaming eyes, she was unable to utter a word. He laid his hand kindly on her shoulder to soothe her, and then listened to her assurance that, though she was a strolling rope-dancer, she had never taken other people's property.
A man with such a tongue as that of Cicero will make the listener believe almost whatever he will; and the advocate is restrained by no horror of falsehood. In his profession alone it is considered honorable to be a bulwark to deception, and to make the worse appear the better cause. Cicero did so when the occasion seemed to him to require it, and has been accused of hypocrisy in consequence.
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