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The enormous sums spent upon me were not really mine; they came to me by an error of blind Fortune, when they ought to have gone to P 's son. They should have gone to benefit him, not me, in whom P interested himself by a mere caprice, instead of doing his duty as a father.
And who was he, that stood so straight upon the quarter-deck, to instil this scum with love and worship and fervour to blind them to such odds? But the bo'suns piped and sang out the command in fog-horn voices, the drums beat the long roll and the fifes whistled, and the decks became suddenly alive.
Hugh, my boy, you are in luck. Good-evening. She is adorable. She can be no common village wench. Rachel. Yes, I have always lived here. Down, fluttering heart. And who is the lucky village lad who is privileged to woo such beauty? Rachel. I have no lover, sir. Can Hodge be so blind? Are you making love to me? Fitzhugh. Rachel. Rachel. Fitzhugh. It is the most beautiful name in the world.
Winsome the matron comes more slowly up the stairs. "Can common, uninspired people come in?" she says, pausing at the top. She looks about with a motherly eye, and pulls down the blind of the window into which the sun has been streaming all the morning.
We're sadly in want of a few leading Radicals, and perhaps I may be able to gain one now." Alice thought of her cousin George, and wished that he, instead of herself, was sitting next to the Duke of St Bungay. "But I'm afraid I never shall be a leading Radical," she said. "You shall lead me at any rate, if you will," said he. "As the little dogs lead the blind men," said Lady Glencora.
Perhaps we should all have had to go to Epsom! And I couldn't bear to see you in handcuffs, you know." "Don't you think we had better leave them alone?" I said to Miss Trevor. She smiled and shook her head. "You are blind as a bat, Mr. Crocker," she said. The Celebrity had weighed Miss Thorn's words and was listening passively now while she talked.
So, back again to black tunnels, where the blind walls heard secrets they would never tell. The houses had no eyes, and the street doors drew back into shadow. "Do you wonder now," Nevill asked, "that it's difficult to find out what goes on in an Arab's household?" "No," said Stephen. "I feel half stifled. It's wonderful, but somehow terrible.
The gloomy mood of her unfortunate husband would sadden Daphne's existence even more than my own; for, Thyone, though I should strive with all my strength to bear patiently, with her dear aid, the burden imposed upon me, and move on through the darkness with joyous courage, like many another blind man, I could not succeed."
And these are the words of Agassiz: "Darwinism seeks to dethrone God, and replace Him by a blind force called the Law of Evolution." So passed away the great soul of Louis Agassiz. Fiske has been called the Huxley of America; but Fiske was like Agassiz in this, he never had the felicity to achieve the ill-will of the many.
We go on taking everything for granted, and so we go on, until whatever we do, good, bad, or indifferent, we do from habit. Habit is all I shall have to report, when I am called upon to plead to my conscience, on my death-bed. "Habit," says I; "I was deaf, dumb, blind, and paralytic, to a million things, from habit."
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