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"Save on your account, my dearest Aylmer," observed his wife, "I might wish to put off this birth-mark of mortality by relinquishing mortality itself, in preference to any other mode. Life is but a sad possession to those who have attained precisely the degree of moral advancement at which I stand. Were I weaker and blinder, it might be happiness. Were I stronger, it might be endured hopefully.
She thought it was you, or she never would have gone." The fair, refined face of the artist flushed deep red, and he was grave in an instant. "Madame, what do you say?" "Oh, you know!" cried the woman, vehemently. "You surely know, else all you men are blinder than bats. You know she loved you well." "Oh, madame!" The young man caught his breath.
The hunted fugitive who struck through our hearts to slay him, should stand beside his stately bier to see how powerless are bullets and blades to take the real life of any noble man! Washington, April 27th. Justice is satisfied, though blinder vengeance may not be. While the illustrious murdered is on the way to the shrine, the stark corpse of his murderer lies in the shambles.
"Nonsense, Richard," said Mary softly, but with an affectionate squeeze of his arm. "Well, ta-ta, I'm off!" said Purdy. And as Mahony still continued to quiz him, he added in a downright surly tone: "Just the same old Dick as ever! Blinder than any bat to all that doesn't concern yourself! I'll eat my hat if it's ever entered your noddle that Polly's quite the prettiest woman on Ballarat."
"But why should he not like to get the credit of it, as he did? Fame and glory they are the spirit of life, the reward of such a death." "Oh, no, no," said Ethel. "Fame is coarse and vulgar blinder than ever they draw Love or Fortune she is only a personified newspaper, trumpeting out all that is extraordinary, without minding whether it is good or bad.
Brownlow, ringing the bell. 'Send Mrs. Bedwin here, if you please. The old housekeeper answered the summons with all dispatch; and dropping a curtsey at the door, waited for orders. 'Why, you get blinder every day, Bedwin, said Mr. Brownlow, rather testily. 'Well, that I do, sir, replied the old lady. 'People's eyes, at my time of life, don't improve with age, sir.
And O, miss," says Charley, clapping her hands, with the tears starting down her dimpled cheeks, "Tom's at school, if you please, and learning so good, and little Emma, she's with Mrs. Blinder, miss, a-being took such care of! and Tom, he would have been at school and Emma she would have been left with Mrs. Blinder and me, I should have been here all a deal sooner, miss; only Mr.
Next morning when his niece was shaving the blind man, the razor had to travel over a triumphant smirk which would not explain itself to womankind, Blinder being a man who could bide his time. The time came when the smith looked in to say, "Should I gang yont to Aaron's and see if he'll give me the puir woman's address?"
You are more vulgar and blundering than the most elephantine music-hall artiste. You are blinder and grosser than the mob. These vulgar knockabouts have, at least, got hold of a social shade and real mental distinction, though they can only express it clumsily. You are so clumsy that you cannot get hold of it at all.
The smith had often denounced this woman, but he never said a word against her again. He stood long reflecting, and then took the letter to Blinder and read it to him. "She doesna say, 'Oh, Aaron Latta, do you mind the Cuttle Well?" was the blind man's first comment. "She was thinking about it," said Auchterlonie. "Ay, and he's thinking about it," said Blinder, "night and day, night and day.
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