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"And a fellow brutally refuses," said Madame de Bellegarde. "Why, really, you know, a fellow can't marry any girl that asks him," said his lordship. "Your cousin won't ask you. She is going to marry Mr. Newman." "Oh, that's a very different thing!" laughed Lord Deepmere. "You would have accepted HER, I suppose. That makes me hope that after all you prefer me."
A groping hand encountered something on the table, a lump of metal, cold and heavy. She seized and dashed it brutally into that hateful face, saw his head jerk back and heard him grunt with pain, and struck again, blindly, with all her might. Instantly the pressure upon her throat was eased. She heard a groan, a fall ... She found herself standing, partly resting upon the table.
"You mean " Brenton's mouth had suddenly gone so dry that he could not finish out the phrase. The doctor did not falter. "Brenton, if I am to help you keep the boy, I shall have to talk to you brutally. The baby was born all right, healthy as a child could be, tough and strong enough for a dozen children.
But Laploshka listened with the abstraction of the deaf adder, and quickly returned to the subject of the two francs. "I'm afraid I must owe it to you," I said lightly and brutally. "I haven't a sou in the world," and I added mendaciously, "I'm going away for six months or perhaps longer."
When he arrived home he found that Helen had been having her troubles, too. Mrs. Finn had disappointed her and sent a frowsy female, who exuded vile whisky and the unpleasant odors of a slattern. "I think she's half drunk," Helen had confessed, brutally. "You can't depend on anyone these days. Servants are getting so independent!"
I have seen at least fifteen men, many of them mental and physical wrecks, assaulted just as brutally as I was, and usually without a cause. I know that men's lives have been shortened by these brutal assaults. And that is only a polite way of saying that murder has been committed here."
And he had a noble cause, the noblest, the most Christlike on earth. Warfare! Yes, in spite of his peace principles he loved warfare. Man was a fighting animal, and he was a man, every inch of him. And he was called on to fight to fight the War-god which had lifted its head so arrogantly and brutally. But his warfare was to be for peace the peace of the world.
Also, and brutally, he suggested his own eligibility. Jees Uck laughed in his face and went back to her grand log-house. But when midwinter came, when hope dies down and life is at its lowest ebb, Jees Uck found she had no credit at the store. This was Thompson's doing, and he rubbed his hands, and walked up and down, and came to his door and looked up at Jees Uck's house and waited.
By far the greater number find their way to New York, being packed and crowded, often brutally, in the common fish-cars at the Fulton Market dock in such numbers that many are unable to rise, and consequently drown.
Then he was bundled brutally into the street, no matter what his condition might be. Penniless, without friends, sick, he drifted naturally to the county poorhouse. There he was patched up quickly and sent out half-cured. The authorities were not so much to blame.
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