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Wives engaged in factories are obliged to leave their children to the care of strangers or elder children, themselves scarcely above the age of children.
But each of them acknowledged, on cross-examination, that a stamp so clean and perfect might be given and maintained without special care; and each of them said that it was quite possible that a letter passing through the post-office might escape the stamp of one of the offices in which it would be manipulated.
Jock went away the next day. He went with a basket of game for MTutor and many nice things for himself, and all the attention and care which might have been his had he been the heir instead of only the young brother and dependent.
He made a sign to me that the salt was not good to eat; and putting a little into his own mouth, he seemed to nauseate it, and would spit and sputter at it, washing his mouth with fresh water after it: on the other hand, I took some meat into my mouth without salt, and I pretended to spit and sputter for want of salt, as much as he had done at the salt; but it would not do; he would never care for salt with meat or in his broth; at least, not for a great while, and then but a very little.
He might have used nicer language, perhaps, but his inner sense was manful. "I don't care a damn," he shouted, so that all the women heard him. "I can only say I am devilish glad that I never let one of those houses." So queer and sound is English feeling that now Major Hockin became in truth what hitherto he was in title only the lord and master of Bruntsea.
He had been heard to bellow at the top of his voice, as if to defy Heaven, that he did not care: he had made enough money to have ham and eggs for his breakfast every morning. He thanked God for it, in a fiendish tone as though he were cursing. Captain Hagberd had been so unfavourably impressed by his tenant, that once he told Miss Bessie, "He is a very extravagant fellow, my dear."
To these virtues he added the graces of a Christian. The morning of his life was spent in honor, wealth, and power; but its evening was obscured by poverty, neglect, and disease, which were alleviated only by the tender care of his old, faithful, and upright friend and attendant Nathaniel Bumppo.
By reason of the natural inclination towards forbidden fruit, the Spaniards are extremely fond of foreign snuff, and care little for their own; thus snuff is smuggled to an enormous extent. My lodging was comfortable enough, but I felt the want of a fire as the cold was more trying than that of Paris, in spite of the southern latitude.
Surely it is through human agency that Providence always works. God helps those who help themselves. 'Spare me your blasphemies. Perhaps you think you are the Messiah. 'I can be an atom of Him. The whole Jewish people is its own Messiah God working through it. 'Take care, young man; you'll be talking Trinity next. And with these heathen notions you expect to marry my daughter!
Sam Truax lay sprawling on the floor. Midshipman Merriam, a most cheerful smile on his face, sat across the fellow, while Hal and the other two midshipmen stood by, looking on. "Hold him please, until I can have the wretch taken care of," requested Captain Jack, making for the spiral stairway to the conning tower.
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