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They did; but to little purpose, either that day or on any day thereafter while the rains which set in that night endured. Soon the shrewd Wolverstone discovered that rum was not what ailed Blood. Rum was in itself an effect, and not by any means the cause of the Captain's listless apathy. There was a canker eating at his heart, and the Old Wolf knew enough to make a shrewd guess of its nature.
Let us see how it applies more particularly to our own case. The true presentment of the Higher Thought contains no "negative propagandism." It is everywhere ranged on the side of the Affirmative, and its great object is to extirpate the canker which gnaws at the root of every life that endeavours to centre itself upon the Negative. Its purpose is constructive and not destructive.
Few give themselves the trouble to study his beginnings, and few, therefore, give weight enough to the fact that he made a false start. He, the ground of whose nature was an acrid common-sense, whose eye magnified the canker till it effaced the rose, began as what would now be called a romantic poet.
He's another man that would like to be honest, but with the whole place impregnated with bribery he couldn't stand the pressure. But after this is all over he'll go home to his wife and his neighbors with the canker of this thing at his heart until he dies. I tell you, Jack, I'm for stopping it if we can." "How?" "There's one way.
"You can't go anywhere, sir, with the tents of your company in that disgraceful condition. Just look at them, sir, as ragged as a wash line on a windy day!" And Canker scowled angrily at the young fellow standing squarely at attention before him. "I know that, colonel, but the sun did that while we were out at drill, and the men will straighten everything in ten minutes.
You must, therefore, lead me into the field, not to follow the fox, but that I may note my boys among the company. It may have been in return for this service, that Wilberforce handed on to Sir George a vaunted cure for sleeplessness. The Bishop suffered, now and then, from that canker of a busy life, and some person offered to send him a sure remedy, on receipt of one sovereign, no more.
So long estranged from what was lovely as Clifford had been, she rejoiced rejoiced, though with a present sigh, and a secret purpose to shed tears in her own chamber that he had brighter objects now before his eyes than her aged and uncomely features. They never possessed a charm; and if they had, the canker of her grief for him would long since have destroyed it.
He looked mournful and frightened too. Yes, frightened. "I can't, Mother." "You can perfectly well. Tell Yearp to come and look at Pussy's ears, I think she's got canker." "She hasn't," said Jerry defiantly. "She jolly well has," said Eliot. "Rot." "You only say that because you don't like to think she's got it." "Eliot can go himself. He's fond of Yearp." "You'll do as you're told, Jerry.
When it was rejoined that the canker of slavery had eaten away many bonds of Union, and promoted secession, the English disputant demanded whether the war aimed at rebuking slavery in a practical way, or by strengthening it as a locally constitutional institution?
The breaking of their solitude, though by a well-meaning friend, had not only dispelled all its dream and much of its charm, but had instilled a canker of fear. Both had seen the footprint in the sand. Venters did no more work that day.
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